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Jaron Bourke '88, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored group Harvard Watch, said he hand delivered letters to each hospital, urging board members to consider a more restrictive policy...
...credit cards. But, on average, those cards weren't being used much, while many other customers had ordered more than 160,000 cards in that same time period. So the media ask, "Has this hurt you? Do you think your company will survive?" Well, certainly we will survive. Ralph Nader says, "Boycott!" and when we're asked, we say we haven't noticed it. Is that arrogance? Maybe I should have said that I'm wringing my hands or something. I guess I'm supposed somehow to be generating sympathy, but it's very hard...
...with ten years of Reagan and Bush. People want to see a movie that speaks to that concern and need." In addition, the movie industry may have bought itself an eccentric superstar. Wouldn't it be funny if it took GM's most nettlesome antagonist since Ralph Nader to lead Hollywood to the heartbeat of America...
...show that had flopped in its last tryout, The Pay-Raise Follies enjoyed a remarkably rapid revival. There was House Speaker Tom Foley last week, a bipartisan cast gathered around him, calling earnestly for more money. Here again came consumer advocate Ralph Nader, stirring up rabid radio talk-show hosts to bash Capitol Hill for insatiable greed. George Bush, once more standing in the wings, sent his best wishes...
...some, that was not enough to justify a nearly 40% salary increase. "We come forward with ethics reform, and we instead sneak in a pay raise," said Democratic Congressman James Traficant of Ohio. "With the huge budget deficit we face, now is not the time." Nader spokesman Bob Dreyfuss pointed out that while Congress was looking after its own interests, it had delayed action on a federal child-care plan and failed to pass a budget -- leaving servicemen, Medicare recipients, farmers and other federal beneficiaries vulnerable to the automatic Gramm-Rudman-Hollings cutbacks. "If the issue were based on merit...