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...American President, let alone a Republican of Nixon's background and character, to raise such a doubt about traditionally defined economic growth. The idea of almost infinite expansion has always been a part of the national faith. Now, even in the White House, there is a disposition to heed the Thoreauvian advice: "Simplify...
...Your article proves that one man with a goal can accomplish it. Peacefully, even. Black Panthers, student dissidents and anti-pollutionists, take heed...
...nation, the Arab people, is opposed to our state, Israel," says Muhammad Hubeishi, a member of Acre's city council. "We can and ought to be like the Jews of America, who are loyal to their state without being disloyal to their people." More Israeli Arabs might heed that advice but for a feeling that the government does not do enough for them...
UNTIL the great cyclamate furor bubbled over this fall, few Americans paid much heed to the minute lettering on their cakes and candy bars, diet drinks and instant dinners. Even a magnifying glass was little help in explaining those obscure polysyllables: propylene glycol, calcium silicate, butylated hydroxyanisole, sorbitan monostearate, methylparaben. Today, the portmanteau word for such substances is "additives"-which translates into myriad chemicals that have made even bread a laboratory product and the cheese spread to put on it a test-tube concoction...
Restaurant owners had better take heed. Nader is by now an almost legendary crusader who would?and could ?use a fly to instigate a congressional investigation. As the self-appointed and unpaid guardian of the interests of 204 million U.S. consumers, he has championed dozens of causes, prompted much of U.S. industry to reappraise its responsibilities and, against considerable odds, created a new climate of concern for the consumer among both politicians and businessmen. Nader's influence is greater now than ever before. That is partly because the consumer, who has suffered the steady ravishes of inflation upon...