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...income in making a loan decision. In St. Paul, the city's Department of Human Rights discovered that when a man and a woman of the same creditworthiness applied for a $600 auto loan, nine of 23 local banks gave preferential treatment to the man. A public-interest research group in Oregon has published a 74-page study accusing the state's major banks and retail stores of consistently underrating women as credit risks...
...subcommittee also called for legislation to force corporations and other large membership groups to disclose their political contributions, and it indicated it might reconsider its policy of abstention next year, provided activist groups call for disclosure by all large membership groups--such as labor unions and public-interest lobbyists--and not just corporations...
...kind of opposition that will best hold Nixon's strongman tendencies in check. So long as our demonstrations can be brushed aside in citizen's minds with the tag of "cynical student rebellion," Nixon has little to worry about. Fortunately, his victory cannot destroy the work of public-interest lobbyists. Nor can it halt either the effects of grass-roots community organizing or the appeal of anti-administration campaigns focused on undisguisable conditions: inflation, racism, inequitable taxes, military overextension and waste, violations of civil liberties, poor housing, corporation influence and government corruption. Working to change these conditions most effectively demonstrates...
...price supports that benefit mostly higher-income farmers; subsidies to general aviation that aggravate airport congestion by encouraging private flying. The nation can no longer afford such extravagances, but they continue because they are promoted by powerful self-interest lobbies that encounter little opposition. They should be opposed by public-interest counterlobbies, which could press competing demands for cash for other programs. That is a cause to which Ralph Nader and his army of followers could profitably turn their attention...
...said that the Review also hopes to solicit ideas for articles on issues of social concern from public-interest law firms...