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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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> UNSAFE OR IMPURE PRODUCTS. Consumers can get information about the nutritive value and ingredients of dog food more easily than about some forms of canned meat; the chairman of the Senate Consumer Subcommittee, Utah's Frank Moss, likes to point out this discrepancy by reading the can labels to his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE U.S.'s TOUGHEST CUSTOMER | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Nearly all major cities and about 22 states have created offices of consumer affairs, many of them headed by attractive and energetic women with whom housewives identify easily. The national prototype is Mrs. Virginia Knauer, 54, a Philadelphia grandmother who served as Pennsylvania's consumer adviser and last April was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE U.S.'s TOUGHEST CUSTOMER | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

All too few consumer watchdogs, however, are effective. The limp performance results partly from austerity budgets and from the reluctance of many juries to convict businessmen under criminal codes. The appointees to consumer-affairs jobs frequently have little experience in government. California's Kay Valory, consumer counsel to Governor Ronald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE U.S.'s TOUGHEST CUSTOMER | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

For next year, economists see continuing inflation, though at a slower rate. Arthur Okun, former chief of the Council of Economic Advisers, summarizes the consensus: 1970 shapes up as what could be called a 2-4-6 year -meaning 2% real growth, plus 4% inflationary growth, which would add up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: No Season to Be Jolly | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Like a man possessed, Nader has forsworn any semblance of a normal life. His workdays last 16 to 20 hours, often seven days a week. He has no secretaries, no ghostwriters, no personal aides other than his summer volunteers. Nader operates from two little-known Washington addresses and two unlisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Lonely Hero: Never Kowtow | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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