Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Javits undoubtedly has an outstanding record in the Senate; Ralph Nader's survey of congressional aides pinpointed the New Yorker as the Senate's brightest, and second most influential, member. The ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Javits was responsible for shepherding the complicated 1973 War Powers Act through Congress...
Bakhtiar's implication was also affirmed in a series of dramatic televised confessions by some of the alleged conspirators, including Colonel Nader Vahdatipour and retired Brigadier General Ayatullah Mohaqqeqi. Vahdatipour said the plot had originally been based on the military's desire to save Iran from Communism. The conspirators, he added, got in touch with Bakhtiar only after forming their own clandestine organization...
...action as little more than a sugar-coated placebo that will have little effect. As a consequence, they are calling for even stronger measures to cope with what FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, calls "our overmedicated society." One reform proposed by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group: require doctors to write a new prescription every time a patient wants to buy tranquilizers. Under the FDA's current rules, tranquilizer prescriptions can be refilled up to five times in six months...
...already appealed for a $27 billion reduction, including faster depreciation and a two-point drop in corporate taxes. Such measures, said the chamber's chief economist, Richard Rahn, "should greatly increase the supply of savings, and that is a very positive program." By contrast, Robert McIntyre of Ralph Nader's Tax Reform Research Group is wary of faster depreciation and wants payroll taxes cut. Says he: "We think it would be a relatively progressive tax cut. It would go to working people mostly, though it would go to business...
...Grandstand show. Scheduled throughout the day are reports on such topics as health and nutrition, law, fashion, pet care, astrology, gardening and home repairs. Turner has also signed up a roster of big-name commentators, including Senator Barry Goldwater, ex-Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Political Columnists Richard Reeves, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Psychologist Joyce Brothers and ERA Opponent Phyllis Schlafly...