Word: nader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard law student's report for Ralph Nader--to be released as a book this July--concludes that collusion between the federal government, domestic communications interests, and regulatory agencies has prevented the development of cheap communication by satellite...
...couldn't be equated with Boy Scouts"-a crack that can be fully appreciated only by someone who knows that the line's officers and directors agreed to an out-of-court settlement on shareholders' charges of fiscal mismanagement. Faced once by contradictory accusations from Ralph Nader that Citibank was being too stingy in lending to the poor and at the same time luring the poor into debt over their heads, Wriston asked dryly...
More troubling to some critics was the definition of the job. According to a Ralph Nader organization, Public Citizen, "the ridiculous and arcane bureaucratic language used in the preparation of the [State Department] report comes closer to parody than serious Government proposal." Mrs. Braden admits to being somewhat vague about her duties ("I've only been here since Friday," she said last week, after her first days on the job). Most probably, she will attempt to apply her clear-as-mud mandate to such matters as wheat sales, export taxes and passports. But even some State Department officials concede...
Various other charismatic and influential Americans are sometimes discussed as potential presidential candidates, but cannot be taken too seriously because they have no broad leadership experience or represent too limited concerns. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, 41, would be in this group, along with many outstanding scientists and intellectuals...
Silent Spring and Ralph Nader. Abruptly, technology was cast as villain, plucking man from nature's bosom and forcing upon him tedious jobs and trivial products...