Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Debate. The quadriphonic howls of protest indicated that Ruckelshaus had passed one test of an impartial compromise: he outraged both sides about equally. Ralph Nader, Detroit's perennial fifth wheel,* charged that the EPA decision amounted to "capitulation to the domestic auto industry, pure and simple." Automen insisted that the interim standards are still too stiff. General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg pronounced himself "dismayed"; Henry Ford II pledged to "examine the avenues of administrative, legislative and legal recourse open to us" to get both the interim and final standards softened. The contrasting denunciations unintentionally symbolized what Ruckelshaus himself called...
Besides G.E., companies facing shareholder resolutions dealing with their political activities include EASTMAN KODAK (250,000 shares; April 24), GENERAL MOTORS (275,000 shares; May 25), and IT&T (325,000 shares; May 9). Ralph Nader's Project on Corporate Responsibility is asking all three to issue an annual report on its political contributions, including "brief descriptions of positions communicated between high-level personnel...and high-level officials of the federal government concerning any matter of unusual significance to the corporation." Particularly in view of the continuing furor over IT&T's attempt to buy the Chilean election, Harvard...
...first proxy campaign of them all was Campaign GM, which wanted, among other things, safer cars. Recently, activists have been more interested in the safety of companies' employees, and this year a group of staffers from the UMW's Miners for Democracy and various Ralph Nader groups--with occasional advice from outsiders like Martin Peretz, Master of South House--formed Campaign Continental...
...Counseling Service in Boston. Other students initiated projects geared to the problems of black and Chicano workers: two people worked to improve minority health care; another two helped Detroit factory workers to organize a credit union. E4A funded one senior who traveled to Washington, D.C., to help in Ralph Nader's investigation of Congress; another student went home to Kenya to try to help local coffee- growers organize a cooperative...
...committee also discussed Campaign Continental, an organization of old Miners for Democracy and Ralph Nader staffers, which is soliciting proxies from Continental Oil's shareholders, primarily to force disclosure of information on allegedly unsafe conditions in the company's coal mines...