Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> SLOPPY SERVICE. Consumers Union, a nonprofit, private testing organization of which Nader is a board member, distributed 20 deliberately broken TV sets to New York City homes and asked neighborhood repairmen to fix them: only three of the 20 were properly serviced. Television, air-conditioner and many other repairmen commonly...
Nearly all major cities and about 22 states have created offices of consumer affairs, many of them headed by attractive and energetic women with whom housewives identify easily. The national prototype is Mrs. Virginia Knauer, 54, a Philadelphia grandmother who served as Pennsylvania's consumer adviser and last April was...
(9 of 11) under," causing a driver to lose control. G.M., which eventually redesigned the system, at first did not even recall the model for checking. But executives were disturbed enough by Nader's charges to hire a Washington law firm to look into the matter. The lawyer, in turn...
The drop in the Dow-Jones to below 800, which was widely heralded as an important psychological resistance point, did not touch off any heavy selling. Still, brokers drew little comfort from that fact. Some would have preferred a burst of aggressive selling that might have cleaned out the pessimists...
On weekends, Nader hitchhiked out of town?just to see the U.S.?and learned, among many other things, that trucks were not built the way he and truck drivers thought they should be. For instance, a coat hanger in some truck cabs could puncture a driver's skull in...