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...heady postwar era was published between the hard covers of books. William H. Whyte's The Organization Man (1956) and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers (1959) skewered conformity within the corporation. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) condemned corporate polluters and gave birth to the environmental movement. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) led to drastic, overdue and life-saving changes in auto-safety standards. The underside of American business was also revealed in such hand-to-mouth, left-leaning publications as I.F. Stone's Weekly and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker. Why these crusaders...
They note that consumer advocate Ralph Nader called it "One of the biggest consumer ripoffs in Massachusetts history...
...announced merger plans last month, FCC chairman William Kennard jumped right in and gave his blessing. The merger promised new technologies and new conveniences for customers. So why has Congress been holding hearings on the merger when its members should be out campaigning or something? Two words: Ralph Nader...
...hearings on the grounds that "the addition of AT&T's muscle would strengthen TCI's government-permitted monopoly on cable rather than give consumers more choice." Notes McCullagh: "The argument is that the combination would create an 800-lb. gorilla that the Bells couldn't compete against." But Nader, says McCullagh, is missing the point. The Baby Bells currently aren't competing against anyone, not even each other. Allowing AT&T/TCI to compete in the local phone game would encourage the Bells to enter the long-distance phone market -- and that means more competition all around. Nader...
...Hamill, Valerie Harper, Beth Heiden, Anita Hill, David Ho, Lee Iacocca, John Irving, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Kerrigan, Jack Kevorkian, Henry Kissinger, Bert Lance, Sophia Loren, James Lovell, Lori Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos, Jane Pauley, Dan Rather, Donna Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Molly Ringwald, Mickey Rooney, Mort Sahl, Diane Sawyer, Claudia Schiffer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sargent Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Kerri Strug, Cheryl Tiegs, Laurence Tisch, Donald Trump, Peter Ueberroth, Paul Volcker, Andrew Weil, Raquel Welch and William Westmoreland...