Word: karpatkin
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...rating products, CR's purpose? Richard Greenhaus, 65, was a testing engineer for the magazine for 18 years; he left in 1990 because, he says, CR had "changed from an interested consumers' group to a bureaucracy behaving like a branch of government." Greenhaus charges that Consumers Union president Rhoda Karpatkin "is a politically active Democrat" and that CR has changed from conducting disinterested research to promoting a consciously liberal agenda. Says Karpatkin, citing a 1986 letter from Ronald Reagan praising Consumers Union's "competence and impartiality": "I do not engage in partisan politics...