Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ralph Nader's "victory" [June 21] is not a victory for the rest of the flying public, who will eventually pay the $50,061 because the consumer always eventually pays for everything. The ruling does not go to the root of the problem. Airlines overbook because of no-shows, and no-shows occur because the practice is not penalized...
...Gearhart and perhaps Barker. Touring U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. William Scranton took up the matter in the Ivory Coast with U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who will see Neto this week at the annual meeting of the Organization of African Unity. The State Department also asked the Rev. Ralph Dodge, a retired missionary who during his 20 years in Angola was close to Neto, to use his influence to ask for clemency. Dodge contacted Neto but at week's end had not received a response...
THOMAS PAINE, 28, a landscape architect, and his brother CHARLES PAINE, 24, an engineer, are descendants of Robert Treat Paine of Massachusetts. Thomas believes if their ancestor were alive today, he would "be a consumer advocate, something like Ralph Nader. He would work outside the political parties to clean up politics because he would sense a feeling of hopelessness within our political life." Not so, says Charles: "I think Robert Treat Paine would see our democracy as still pretty vital." Thomas agrees, noting that "democracy is working, but there is a tremendous lack of people in public life whom...
...such passenger, on April 28,1972, was Ralph Nader, bête noir of the American business establishment, who showed up at the Washington National Airport just five minutes before Allegheny Airlines flight 864 was to take off for Hartford. Nader was on a tight schedule to appear at two consumer rallies in Connecticut. He had no seat...
...November, and efforts are under way to get anti-nuclear measures on the ballot in at least seven other states: Arizona, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Washington. The chances that any will be passed have obviously been weakened by the California defeat. A few months ago, Consumerist Ralph Nader predicted that public opposition within five years would bring all construction of nuclear power plants in the U.S. to a dead halt; that now seems an empty boast...