Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed high for tiny Central Oregon Community College (fulltime enrollment: 950), but it is not often that the town of Bend, Ore., attracts so illustrious a speaker as Ralph Nader. The consumer advocate was duly paid for his appearance last fall, but now C.O.C.C. is crying foul. On the same day Nader also dropped in at a number of other schools in the state, accepting only token payments in some cases, or none at all. Confronted with what his agent had wrought, Nader lamented: "God! I'm being hoisted on my own petard!" The explanation was that the C.O.C.C...
...Austin as chairman, and asked it to "concern itself with examining and clarifying the relationship of universities (and in particular this University) with corporate enterprise in general in the United States." The request came during the Campaign GM controversy, in which a group of Washington lawyers, backed by Ralph Nader, hoped to push through two administrative reforms in the General Motors management. Polls of Harvard students and alumni, and a Faculty resolution, indicated widespread support for the drive. The Corporation decided not to vote with Campaign GM in the proxy fight, but the debate on the issue compelled the creation...
Aside from the obvious candidates-such as Albert M. Sacks, acting dean of the Law School-the list includes less likely deans such as Cesar Chavez, William Kunstler and Ralph Nader. There are no women on the list, which is made up of 34 professors, three judges and seven "outsiders...
...past he has been more adventurous. He studied architecture at Yale before switching to law because it offered a greater chance for involvement in social issues. He spent one recent summer writing for the liberal New Republic, another working with Nader's Raiders, where he helped assemble a scathing report on personnel practices at the Federal Trade Commission. One law school acquaintance calls him "a left leaner from the right side of the tracks." Tricia insists that Cox is a registered Republican. "He considers himself an independent," she said at a press conference last week. But "I think...
...shamrocks into orange blossoms with the announcement of her engagement to Harvard Law Student Edward Finch Cox, 24. The official word adds up to something less than real news; Tricia has been wearing his ring since Christmastime, and Eddie's curriculum vitae (he was once one of Nader's Raiders) has been served up in plentiful quantity in the press. The day will be June 12. The place: the White House. The minister: the Rev. Edward Latch, Methodist chaplain of the House of Representatives. The couple will spend the summer in Manhattan, where Eddie has a temporary...