Word: nadering
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...still as vociferous as ever in complaining about their government; the whole antiwar protest movement is an example of that tendency. In recent years, their complaints about the private sector of the economy have received a considerable boost from the rise of consumerism in the U.S. Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader has successfully taken on big targets-the auto companies, food industry, etc.-that have long seemed impervious to the complaints of individuals. The institution of the ombudsman, long familiar in Europe, has begun to crop up in the U.S. to represent the interests of beleaguered citizens in contention with government...
...Americans and renders them silent when they should be talking louder. Too many people still doubt that complaining will do any good. Those ultimately responsible for this state of affairs seem baffling and remote. Is anybody listening when an individual-as distinct from a powerful, publicity-seeking group like Nader's-seeks to air his grievances...
...editor frequently wears rumpled seersucker, odd slacks and boots doesn't hurt rapport either. Not that generational and ideological friction is completely absent. Radical Columnist David Deitch was recently removed from the Op-Ed page. Winship explained that the change was to make room for contributions from Ralph Nader and the Black Congressional Caucus; Deitch charged that the paper could no longer swallow his attacks on the Boston financial establishment...
...shattering program that will give the nation the "lift of a driving dream" he has talked about, even though much of it amounts to an ideological reversal of his past positions. Drawing on the best advice of a wide range of Americans-including, for openers, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez and George Wallace, Saul Alinsky and Pat Moynihan-he holds a domestic summit worthy of his foreign ones...
...Ralph Nader, LL.D., dedicated consumer advocate...