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Nader compares giant corporations to self-contained governments, with powers to tax (price fixing), coerce (forcing citizens to live with environmental hazards) and even take lives (concealing information about potentially fatal defects in manufactured goods). And unlike a democratic government, Nader observes, "the 'economic government' is largely unaccountable to its constituencies--shareholders, workers, consumers, local communities, taxpayers, small businesses and future generations...
More than at any point in the postwar period, the U.S. seems to be on the defensive in a dangerous world. For Jimmy Carter, that impression could be politically fatal. One reason he is slipping in the polls and stumbling in the primaries is the economy, but another is that the Administration so often seems to be dithering in its effort to regain control over events abroad. Yet his rivals offer very few alternative solutions. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott sent this assessment...
...relatively rare B-negative blood type. The hectic search yielded 15 liters (about 32 pints) of blood necessary for an operation to excise the spleen: according to his Egyptian doctors, the organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there was a possibility it could burst in a fatal hemorrhage. The terse clinical diagnosis of New York Hospital's Dr. Benjamin Kean, who flew to Cairo on Wednesday to take part in the surgery: "He is not just sick, but very sick...
...fact that Ford Motor Co. had to come to Winamac, Ind., and defend itself on a criminal charge would put all large corporations on notice. Corporations have to be responsible citizens; they cannot pollute our waters, pollute our atmosphere or put out a defective product that can be fatal...
...working 15 hours a day on Fu Manchu, having just taken over the direction of the film. They are delivered in front of a wife who does not tire of saying that her husband "is only happy when he is working. To give up work would be fatal to Peter's mental state. A beach for him is an ideal which when realized is never as good as the anticipation...