Word: nader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with much. Auto workers shoot H on company time, the reader learns. Never buy a car produced on Monday or Friday (an old counsel) because assembly-line absenteeism on those days results in sloppy work. Auto dealers are sly fellows. Industry executives do not unanimously approve of Ralph Nader. What Hailey neglects to use is astonishing: there is no union bargaining session, no Senate committee meeting, no sense of the deep, cold currents of power in Grosse Pointe. Moreover, the sleepy president of G.M. is not heard from after page...
...Washington, D.C., the Consumer Federation of America is setting up a "retail employees price watch" to encourage reticent clerks, buyers and checkers to blow the whistle-anonymously-on companies that surreptitiously boost prices. Mark Frederiksen, one of Ralph Nader's consumer watch-birds, is feeding the pre-and post-freeze price lists of 77 Washington-area stores into a computer. The print-outs will be turned over to consumer groups and labor unions. In New York City, 1,000 shop stewards of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees descended on local supermarkets last week to monitor...
...group of Washington lawyers sponsored by Ralph Nader took on General Motors and inaugurated the consumer movement for corporate social responsibility...
Opinion v. Opinion. Myth No. 3: America is "the citadel of reaction." Revel's reply: Nothing quite as unreactionary as Ralph Nader or the mass opposition to Viet Nam has ever happened in Europe...
...target seems too large or formidable for Ralph Nader's lance. The latest to feel its thrust is the state of California. A team headed by the energetic consumer advocate has completed a 15-month study of the anatomy of California's land and water resources and political power. The findings are disturbing. According to the report, the nation's most fecund state is virtually controlled by a closely knit power structure that is systematically stripping California's resources for immense profits. The report claims that a mere 25 landowners-24 of them corporations-hold...