Word: naderism
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...controversial measure would create an independent federal agency that would review consumers' complaints and represent their interests before federal courts and regulatory agencies but have no regulatory power of its own. It would in effect institutionalize consumer advocacy and provide an agency that Ralph Nader believes would be "a hair shirt" for other federal departments. That proposition has been desperately fought by lobbyists of the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business groups, who feel that it will bring harassment by yet another bureaucracy. They have stalled passage of similar legislation for five years, although...
...extols mercy, it also demands justice and honors those who seek it?those who, in the words of the Sermon on the Mount, "hunger and thirst for righteousness." If every wrongdoer deserved unlimited mercy, police could not arrest murderers, district attorneys could not prosecute slumlords, and ombudsmen like Ralph Nader could not attack the shoddy practices of Industry...
...hypothetical atomic plant that released radioactive material into the atmosphere could kill 3,400 people, injure 43,000 others and do some $7 billion worth of property damage. That graphic example has probably caused more disaffection with nuclear power plants than any other argument by any nuclear critic, Ralph Nader included...
Rasmussen concedes that the report is bound to be controversial. For example, it does not even consider sabotage as a cause of nuclear accidents, a possibility that especially troubles Ralph Nader. Nor does it investigate the additional risk of accident involved in the new generation of gas-cooled reactors or the next generation of fast-breeder reactors. In addition, anti-nuclear critics like the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass., vow to scrutinize WASH-1400 for any oversimplification, any error in calculation or method that might discredit the work...
...pension plan. Many blue-collar workers take their first jobs at 16 but would not have to be included in pension plans until they are 25 (though they must then be given credit for three years' vesting). Karen W. Ferguson, a Washington attorney and ally of Ralph Nader, complains that not requiring full vesting for ten or 15 years is unfair, given the high mobility of the U.S. labor force: "An employee fortunate enough to stay under a single pension plan throughout his work life will always be better off than his fellow worker who changes jobs." Noting that...