Word: nader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millionaire former Wall Street investment banker (Dillon Read), Flanigan, 48, is variously regarded as a mischievous genius of finance, a wheeler-dealer and the business community's best friend at the White House. According to Ralph Nader, Flanigan is the "most evil" man in Washington because he so often appears to be responsible for shifts in presidential policy favorable to business...
They dress in everything from miniskirts to medieval mantles. They do everything from classroom teaching to police work. One has a job with Cesar Chavez, another with Ralph Nader. There is a deputy attorney general and an Air Force lieutenant. They live in inner-city slums, in posh suburbs, on farms, even in the desert. They come singly, by the dozen and in battalions. They are the new American nuns who, in the decade since the Second Vatican Council first provided the inspiration, have streamed out of their centuries-old enclosures into the modern world...
...lower than a wage earner's pension. And a commercially employed woman generally earns less than a man. Thus all widowed or single women over 65 receive an average of less than $115 a month in Social Security, compared with an average $145 for such men. As Ralph Nader has put it, "our society encourages a woman to stay home and take care of her family, and then penalizes her later for not having worked...
...look forward to more safety in our mines, highways and factories, less explosive accidents in our gas pipelines, cleaner meat and poultry on our tables, and broader public representation in the management of large public corporations," the $1,500 prize was awarded to 38-year-old Ralph Nader...
...nation can no longer afford such extravagances, but they continue because they are promoted by powerful self-interest lobbies that encounter little opposition. They should be opposed by public-interest counterlobbies, which could press competing demands for cash for other programs. That is a cause to which Ralph Nader and his army of followers could profitably turn their attention...