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This line of policy intrude stems all the way to just after start's graduation from Columbia in 1970, when he went to work for consumer advocate Raioh Nader, even he was starting his graduate work at Harvard...
...Garza's globetrotting is hardly unique. He is only one of many who seem to take advantage of the public purse in pursuing junkets around the globe. A report released last week by Congress Watch, a Washington-based public interest group founded by Ralph Nader, documents the travel of all Senators and Congressmen for a 2 ½-year period ending June 30, 1983: 991 trips that reached 114 countries. Some members did no traveling: 44% of Congressmen and 37% of Senators stayed at home during the period. Others traveled moderately and with a clear purpose in mind...
...Auto Safety contends that one of the scuttled rules-a requirement that new cars have a dashboard gauge warning drivers of low tire pressure-would have saved at least $300 in better gas mileage from properly inflated tires. Claybrook, who has now resumed duties as an aide to Ralph Nader, charges that "NHTSA has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Detroit manufacturers...
...fierce but unequal contest. On one side stood President Reagan, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and many of the mightiest bankers in the U.S. and abroad. On the other side was an unusual left-right coalition that included religious and environmental groups as well as Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and conservative Congressmen like Jack Kemp. At issue was a plan, already passed by the Senate, for the U.S. to pump an additional $8.1 billion into the International Monetary Fund to help the organization bail out indebted developing countries...
...Declared Howard Ruff, founder of Free the Eagle, a 60,000-member group that spent more than $600,000 to fight the measure: "Every penny of the IMF money will flow right back to the banks, and they shouldn't be rewarded for getting us into this mess." Nader took a similar tack. Said he of the IMF'S activities: "The net effect is to allow large banks to pass off loan risks to public institutions while continuing to reap high loan profits...