Word: public
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Public criticism, some of it galvanized by broadcast talk-show hosts, helped lead to defeat of a proposed 51 percent congressional pay raise earlier this year. But there was no time this time...
...Without public hearings, without a decent interval of time for the American people to digest it... the House leadership railroaded it through," complained consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who opposes congressional pay increases...
...McBride, senior vice president of Common Cause, the self-proclaimed public interest organization, hailed the action as "moving toward a time when we will have government fully compensated by the public, and not by special interest influence money...
...events at the Law School this fall suggest that many students there would like the legal profession to mean more than just yuppiedom. Students were enraged when Dean Robert C. Clark closed the school's public interest law counseling office over the summer. Hundreds attended a rally protesting his action, and about two-thirds of the student body signed a petition calling for the school to do more to encourage its students to seek careers providing legal aid to the needy...
Thursday nights in Harkness Commons in many ways reflect this tug-of-war between public spiritedness and corporate glamour...