Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporting the use of shareholder resolutions and broadening the anti-nuclear movement to oppose the corporations that fund the power plants, Boudreau and her collegues say they believe they will increase popular support for the anti-nuclear movement to include other groups that are disenchanted with the capatalist economic system...
...Nukes are a symbol of economic exploitation," Boudreau says. She adds that by opposing the companies that support nukes "we're striking right at the heart of the American economic system." Harvard's Top Ten Nuclear Related Investments Exxon Corporation $35,442,448 Standard Oil Co. of California $20,912,364 Mobil Corporation $18,360,622 Atlantic Richfield $17,465,122 Gulf Oil $15,969,160 General Electric Company $15,673,735 Getty Oil $11,765,924 Raytheon $9,585,634 Phillips Petroleum $8,996,703 Florida Power and Light $7,169,390 According to '78-'79 Financial Report
...still expecting Carter to be nominated, elected, the whole bit. And campaigning his ass off. All across the nation idealistic young workers are leading the Kennedy charge with cries of "Chappawhat? Mary Jo who? Forget S 1." Ted's record in the Senate is one of long and principled support for progressive legislation, from full employment to national health to tax reform. But S1 and its renumbered offshoots make you stop and think again. Nixon wanted above all to stamp out the demonstrators who were impeding his efforts in Vietnam, and the journalists who were leaking state secrets...
Kennedy assumes he will get the support of the left in 1980. After all, who else can the left go for? So he has already begun creeping towards the political center, talking about anti-inflationary crusading and the need for good old American free market competition in many industries. He's even selling his national health program as a privately insured system, a chance for financial corporations to profit from the sufferings of the old and diseased...
Carter pulled the same trick in '76, cynically taking the support of the left for granted while he made overtures to the right. Will the left never learn? The only choice is no choice. Had the left pulled out of the '76 electoral fights and accepted that Jimmy Carter Republicanism is not significantly different from Jerry Ford Republicanism, it would be in a much stronger position this time around...