Word: naderism
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Preliminary returns on a referendum undertaken by the Harvard Bulletin show that the magazine's readers, most of whom are alumni, favor-in a 4:3 ratio-voting Harvard's General Motors shares with Ralph Nader's group, the Project on Corporate Responsibility...
...Nader emphasized the need for independent groups of professionals to serve the public interest. These groups would provide the expertise needed for meaningful change and would be supported by "whatever resources that can be built up... through government subsidy, foundations, and private donations...
...Nader explained that this type of professional structure is necessary if the environmental movement is to sustain "an entrenched role of constant change rather than just an episodic reaction...
...long in advance. Ecologist Barry Commoner's schedule was the busiest, calling for him to rush from Harvard and M.I.T. to Rhode Island College and finally to Brown University. Population Biologist Paul Ehrlich was lined up for speeches at Iowa State, Biologist René Dubos at U.C.L.A., Ralph Nader at State University of New York in Buffalo. In addition, such heroes of the young as Dr. Benjamin Spock, Poet Allen Ginsberg and various rock stars planned to have their say, if not precisely about ecology, then about the joys of the natural life. Almost all the notables were also...
...these troubles have been exacerbated by G.M.'s rather stiff response to Ralph Nader. In the latest joust, a group of lawyers backed by Nader in the "Project for Corporate Responsibility" bought a dozen G.M. shares and suggested that a series of consumer-oriented resolutions be put to a vote at the annual meeting. G.M. brusquely refused. To G.M.'s chagrin, the Securities and Exchange Commission then ordered it to put two of the resolutions to a vote. One would add three public representatives to G.M.'s board; the other would create a committee, partially made...