Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequently to discuss compliance?or resistance. "Ten or 15 years ago, people considered conventions to be social outlets," says James Low, president of the 6,200-member American Society of Association Executives (which will have its own convention in St. Louis next August). "But with the dawn of Ralph Nader, suddenly everyone was under question. People wanted to know if businessmen were ethical, whether their products were safe. The business world turned in on itself. For the first time businessmen realized they needed their competitors...
...seems hard to believe, but a Ralph Nader lieutenant now bears the chief responsibility for U.S. auto safety as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. As if that were not enough, the consumerist who once sued the Agriculture Department over its beef grading and food-stamp rules is now Assistant Agriculture Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, overseeing the same grading of meat and food-stamp programs...
Claybrook's appointment to NHTSA was greeted with cries of "Astounding!" and "Appalling!" from automakers in Detroit, where she was known as the "Dragon Lady." Her past days as a lower-level Government aide and then as Nader's chief lobbyist and director of his Congress Watch had shown her to be extremely zealous on auto safety. Foreman, who headed the Consumer Federation of America, provoked outcries from farm commodity producers when she became Assistant Agriculture Secretary. Each woman continues to be criticized, but now by Nader as well. He has charged that Claybrook is "a disaster" and that Foreman...
...right now discrediting the meat industry and causing the public to lose confidence in American farm products." The meat industry has sued to block her order that nitrite levels in bacon must be sharply reduced, from 150 parts per million now to 40 parts per million next year. Still, Nader found the order too weak and roasted her for caving in to the food industry...
...director of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group, Dr. Sydney Wolfe has prodded federal agencies into protecting the public against a number of health hazards, from Red Dye No. 2 to chloroform. Though Wolfe's critics grudgingly acknowledge his effectiveness, they maintain that he is overzealous. Last week Wolfe gave critics some new ammunition...