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...black ever to sit on G.M.'s board. The second proposal would have created a Shareholders' Committee for Corporate Responsibility, authorized to spend one year investigating and increasing the company's contributions "to the social welfare of the nation"−such as its efforts to produce safer and nonpolluting cars. The critics argued that G.M.'s management should respond to a wider constituency−not only shareholders and suppliers, dealers, employees and customers, but everyone who breathes the air that cars pollute...
...concerns expressed by Campaign G.M. represent far more than the aspirations of one group of private citizens and indeed go beyond the demand of the American consumer for safer, healthier and more durable products at reasonable cost. They are clearly pointed in the direction in which General Motors and every American corporation must move if they are to function effectively and responsibly in the difficult years ahead. As stockholders and citizens we urge that management respond affirmatively to the goals of the proposals and search for acceptable ways to realize them...
...decreased engine life. No car could hope to finish the race in this condition, and after a car has qualified, the crew reworks the chassis to provide a good compromise of tire wear and handling with a full fuel load, and the fuel system is calibrated for a safer fuel mixture. The speed differential may be anywhere from two to five miles per hour, depending on the individual...
Dean of Admissions Chase N. Peterson '52 has heard the criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. Many students have cited instances of radicals being rejected in favor of less qualified but "safer" candidates, and alumni have complained that Harvard is accepting nothing but rock throwers...
Most of the 40 chemical companies now looking for safer, more specific insecticides simply screen thousands of chemicals each year for their possible insect-killing value. But university and government researchers, by and large, are investigating more elegant biological controls such as introducing parasites, sterile males, specific diseases or natural hormones...