Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social responsibility. Such an attitude allows you to practice law with no concern for justice, or to pay your taxes and mow your suburban lawn with no concern for your life as part of a community. The Harvard that educated social and political reformers like Adams, Thoreau, FDR and Nader is getting its old veins clogged with rampant pre-professionalism. Harvard itself is not beyond reform; we all know our lives and educations here could be better...
...Though not always a guarantee of success: the ill-fated Corvair, which a then little-known lawyer named Ralph Nader said was unsafe, also won the magazine's accolade...
...Before that, he earned a master's degree in urban affairs at Boston College, worked with Boston street gangs for the U.S. Office of Education, was the first director of HEW's Office of Students and Youth, was a Senate aide to Walter Mondale and headed Ralph Nader's organization in Connecticut. Now a member of the House-Senate energy conference committee, he has led the fight to keep tight controls on natural gas prices and reform utility rates. Interviewed by TIME Senior Correspondent James Bell, Moffett echoed the mood of many in Congress. Excerpts...
...exhortations about the environment and corruption in our society were at least as true and relevant as any uttered by Ralph Nader or Euell Gibbons, yet he was often sneered or laughted...
Nonetheless, the Freedom of Information Act has achieved worthwhile results. The CIA, for example, was forced to reveal its top-secret MK-Ultra program of drug experimentation on humans. Ralph Nader used the act to pry out documents for his successful campaign against carcinogenic Red Dye No. 2. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have pressed with some success to get the investigative records of the SEC concerning almost 400 U.S. firms that have paid bribes at home or abroad. The very existence of the law causes bureaucrats to hesitate before launching actions they would not want to explain...