Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting these two proposals on the proxy statement, Campaign G.M.-a group of Washington lawyers supported by Ralph Nader-hopes to force General Motors to become more responsive to the public welfare...
...that nothing can be done. So much is made of rules and regulations, of the idea that 'you had better check it out first.' We become very dependent on others to give us cues. This fosters a lack of self-confidence. We become afraid to act." As Ralph Nader, John Banzhaf and other consumer crusaders have proved, the determined complainer can do plenty. For their part, companies could respond by following the example of Avis, TWA and a few other firms. They assign executives to work briefly at service jobs?as counter clerks or even car washers and baggage handlers?...
...securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday ordered Gencral Motors to place two of Ralph Nader's nine "social responsibility" resolutions on its April proxy statement sent out to all GM stockholders, including Harvard...
With an advertising budget last year of $240 million (more than ten times its research budget), GM should have little trouble spanning the PR gap. Nader has been after them for five years trying to get the GM management to emphasize safety and environment in their research and public image. Perhaps the problem is that GM itself wasn't interested in reading its reports...
...Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) will circulate a petition in the Houses and at Radcliffe during the next three days asking the Corporation to vote Harvard's General Motors shares in favor of the resolutions proposed by the Ralph Nader-backed Campaign for Corporate Responsibility...