Word: gm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enlarge GM's Board of Directors from 24 to 27 seats, adding three representatives of the public. The group's candidates were Betty Furness, President Johnson's special assistant for consumer affairs; Rene Dubos, a University of Chicago biologist and environmentalist; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, a civil rights leader in Washington...
...Change GM's charter to restrict the corporation to operations which are not "detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the citizens of the United States...
...shareholder's committee to study GM's impact on the country, including an assessment of its efforts to produce pollution-free engines and safe cars, its effect on na-general the manner in which it national transportation policy, and in dies its economic power...
Despite recommendations from students, faculty, and alumni that Harvard side with the Campaing, the Corporation decided to back the GM Corporation in the fight...
...Nader's suit charged that GM detectives questioned his neighbors and associates about his personal habits. The suit was tied up by legal appeals for the past three years, and never received a hearing...