Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Third, don't try to sell things for more than they're worth or try to pass off shoddy merchandise. You'll quickly go out of business. Harvard charges the housing fee to all its students--even though some of its dorms are falling apart. Any Nader's Raider would say that those buildings have to be quickly repaired...
...Among the new lawmakers are as many as 15 millionaires, compared with only one in 1978. The wealthiest: Georgia Republican Patrick Swindall, with minimum assets of $1.1 million, not including his home. The tabulations were the idea of Mark Green, head of the Democracy Project and a longtime Ralph Nader associate. Congressmen spent an average of $459,344 to get elected, and of that sum an average of $50,329 came from their own pockets. This "congressional plutocracy" worries Green, who argues that diverse democracy cannot be represented adequately by a "one-class Congress." His solution: using tax money...
Consumer advocates respond that insurers are pushing rates higher than necessary. Last month Ralph Nader and Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization, asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the insurance industry is illegally boycotting some businesses. "What we are witnessing," said Hunter, "is a manufactured crisis intended to bloat insurer profits and reduce victims' rights...
...only "straight-talking" hero of the auto industry whom I am willing to believe is Ralph Nader. James Stern Santa Monica, Calif...
...break came last week after Geagea's militiamen refused a government request to dismantle a checkpoint and toll station that they maintained on the coastal highway to the north of Beirut. The commander of the Lebanese Forces, Fuad Abu Nader, 28, promptly removed Geagea from his post. Geagea's ouster, supported by Syria, quickly stirred dissension within the Lebanese Forces. Abu Nader tried to end the rift by announcing that in the future the Lebanese Forces would function independently of the Phalange Party, but his move came too late. Geagea's militiamen had already seized several Lebanese Forces barracks...