Word: interests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven per cent of last year's Law School class made the pledge to the foundation, which will fund public interest lawyers...
About 150 1978 graduates of 17 law schools, including Boston College, Boston University and Northeastern, pledged money to the foundation, which law students began with the support of Ralph Nader and the Council for Public Interest...
...with the corporation are inviolate. Once there is acceptance of these three basic principles, then the workers and the union are far more willing to accept the idea and try to implement it. Management, on the other hand, is instructed by the corporation, in effect, that if it is interested solely in increasing productivity, forget about it. Workers see through that immediately. Even the corporation will not approach a QWL program on that basis. If, however, there are results which are of common interest to both the workers and the union on the one hand and the company...
...Union leaders are beginning to change their minds. There's more interest being expressed now; there's a greater willingness to enter into experiments. By and large, union resistance relates to, one, a skepticism about management's goals and purposes--a fear that this is simply a gimmick on the part of the management to take advantage of the workers, and two, a fear that if the workers feel that they have a satisfactory life at work, there will be an erosion of loyalty to the union. I challenge both those arguments...
Otunnu also related Carter's interest in human rights to his intention "of selling a specific social system, namely capitalism...