Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though far from certainties, all these points are plausible and arguable. In recent years, controversies such as the Nader-propelled "Truth in Testing" research have focused debate on standardized tests. The subject, then, seems perfect for a provocative book: public interest is high, the experience of taking such tests is almost universal, and the whole topic offers countless points for stimulating discussion...
Regardless of party affiliation or prominence, government waste and fraud is constantly in the public eye, hounded and exposed by a well armed array of waste-watchers from Ralph Nader to Jack Anderson to vindictive congressional committees. The public sector is available and accountable to a scruitinizing, sensitive, cost-conscious public. But what of the red tape and bureaucratic mismanagement in the private sector, as rampant if less detectable than public fraud? Who blows the whistle on individual, private rip-offs of the unwary customer...
...Nader Mehravari Ithica...
...first job in Washington, as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, he carried out a reorganization that pointed the FTC toward serving consumer interests so effectively that he won praise from a man little disposed toward lauding bureaucrats, and especially not Republicans: Ralph Nader. Later, after moving from OMB to HEW Secretary, Weinberger sold Nixon, though not Congress, on a national health insurance plan...
Detroit, especially, is anticipating the early departure of Nader Disciple Joan Claybrook as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, where she pushed hard for the air bags and tighter fuel-efficiency standards for trucks and vans that caused auto-industry headaches. Yale Professor Merton Peck, a Johnson Administration adviser, expects to see increased deregulation of small businesses where, he says, enforcement of rules is erratic and costly, and benefits to employees and consumers are marginal...