Word: nader
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...pension plan. Many blue-collar workers take their first jobs at 16 but would not have to be included in pension plans until they are 25 (though they must then be given credit for three years' vesting). Karen W. Ferguson, a Washington attorney and ally of Ralph Nader, complains that not requiring full vesting for ten or 15 years is unfair, given the high mobility of the U.S. labor force: "An employee fortunate enough to stay under a single pension plan throughout his work life will always be better off than his fellow worker who changes jobs." Noting that...
...Lowell Weicker? Yes. Ralph Nader? Yes. But Barbara Walters? Ye gads, TIME. Take me to your leader...
...Federal Trade Commission, which the Nixon Administration felt had become a bit too aggressive. But the Harvard lawyer has shown a broad streak of independence. For starters, he filed an antitrust suit against Exxon and seven other major oil companies who both produce and distribute oil. With Ralph Nader as ally and Budget Director Roy Ash as adversary, Engman has been fighting to require more detailed financial reporting from major U.S. corporations. Recently he attacked TV ads aimed at children. With Engman's approval, an investigation of food pricing is contemplated, and several in the energy field are currently...
This situation is not really apparent to observers out around the nation, where Harvard is viewed primarily as a font of "radical" ideas, as the generator of more Galbraiths and Schlesingers than of Bundys or Moynihans. If you read any of the Nader reports you are likely to be impressed by the large percentage of Harvard students and faculty listed among the researchers. But this sort of genuine concern for the welfare of the underprivileged or unjustly treated has seemed rarer to me as this year has moved along. Even correcting public misinformation seems of slight concern to Harvard faculty...
Anything in the U.S. remotely equal to Japan's Keidanren, or Federation of Economic Organizations, would generate nightmares for federal trustbusters and apoplexy in Ralph Nader. Keidanren raises money for the ruling Liberal Democrats and functions as the governing body for the interlocking Japanese business empire. It has no legal authority to tell its 110 trade and industrial-association members what to do. But its policy "guidelines" are rarely ignored. Lately, though, Keidanren has been accused by environmentalists of failing to stop pollution, and by consumerists of allowing prices to leap...