Word: ralph
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Regardless of party affiliation or prominence, government waste and fraud is constantly in the public eye, hounded and exposed by a well armed array of waste-watchers from Ralph Nader to Jack Anderson to vindictive congressional committees. The public sector is available and accountable to a scruitinizing, sensitive, cost-conscious public. But what of the red tape and bureaucratic mismanagement in the private sector, as rampant if less detectable than public fraud? Who blows the whistle on individual, private rip-offs of the unwary customer...
...Donovan, was approved as Secretary of Labor by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee; he faces the full Senate vote this week. Some half a dozen informants had told the FBI that Donovan's New Jersey construction firm had ties to organized crime. The chief accuser was Ralph Picardo, a self-admitted "unsavory character" who was convicted of murder in 1975. Two years later, his conviction was overturned on appeal. Meanwhile, Picardo began to talk and the FBI found him to be a credible witness: his testimony has led to three convictions. Picardo claimed that Donovan had made...
...year deal with Sears under which she lends her name to a line of jeans and tops and receives more than $1 million, plus a share of the profits. The fine-boned Norwegian-American brunette who calls herself Clotilde is the Shiseido cosmetics girl in Japan and the Ralph Lauren girl in the U.S. (In this business in which young girls are women, the women are still girls; the terminology of liberation seems to have had no effect.) Some 5,000 of the 15,000 models who work in New York City make $60,000 to $80,000 a year...
...tradition, or at least prop up the corpse. In Seems Like Old Times (S.L.O.T. for short), he has updated Leo McCarey's delicious romantic farce The Awful Truth, this time with Chevy Chase in the Cary Grant role, Goldie Hawn as Irene Dunne and Charles Grodin as Ralph Bellamy. If the new cast spells magic to you, rush to S.L.O.T. You'll see Chevy stumble down an entire hillside and get his nose bobbed by a series of vengeful swinging doors. You'll see Goldie giggle and mewl her way through a dozen predictable dilemmas. You will...
...first job in Washington, as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, he carried out a reorganization that pointed the FTC toward serving consumer interests so effectively that he won praise from a man little disposed toward lauding bureaucrats, and especially not Republicans: Ralph Nader. Later, after moving from OMB to HEW Secretary, Weinberger sold Nixon, though not Congress, on a national health insurance plan...