Word: gm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cites GM Immunity...
...example, Green's report charges that Turner, like those who came before and after him, failed to take action to break up the General Motors Corporation although in writings published before and since his term as Assistant Attorney General Turner has recommended action against monopolies similar to GM and suggested possible legal bases for such action...
...tactic, one he discovered in his battle with the paternalistic Kodak Corporation in Rochester, will be a nationwide coalition of middle-class stockholders who will use their stock proxies collectively for corporate and (indirectly) government responsibility on political and social-issues. (It's similar to Ralph Nader's "Campaign GM," but on the scale of a mass-movement.) As a revolutionary tactic, the plan looks doubtful: it presupposes that corporation management can be forced into cutting their profits and making drastic changes of policies by stockholders who are willing to swallow cuts in their dividends. But there is no question...
...resolutions introduced, by the Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church called for GM to pull out of the Republic of South Africa because of the country's apartheid system. It received 2.9 million votes (1.3 per cent of the total...
...meeting, James H. Roche, chairman of the GM Board, announced that General Motors would spend $150 million to express "our all-out commitment to the complete fulfillment of all that the American public expects...