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Even so, many environmental, health and consumer activists inside and outside the administration felt that Sunstein was insufficiently radical.
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But it is interesting and a little sad that men like Ralph Nader, so-called consumer activists, can pin the violence of individual gunmen with serious mental issues on widespread consumer products that millions of well-adjusted, law-abiding citizens consume on a regular basis.
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Indeed some of the new actors in such disputes, such as consumer-rights activists and environmental groups, may not be susceptible to economic reasoning.
ECONOMIST: At daggers drawn
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Activists, consumer advocates and other special interest groups were quick to issue rebukes on Monday.
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One suggestion, supported by telecoms firms, consumer groups and Internet activists, is that the section covering intellectual property should be excluded from the convention, so that the agreement applies only to disputes over the sale of goods and services.
ECONOMIST: Regulating the Internet
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Activists saw it as the place where environmental, workplace safety, consumer products and other areas of regulation often stalled or died.
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Israel lifted restrictions on imports of consumer goods in 2010, following international pressure after eight pro-Palestinian Turkish activists were killed in clashes with Israeli commandos on board a ship trying to break the naval blockade.
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When Greenpeace activists heard about it, they occupied the platform and instigated a costly public and consumer outcry against Shell.
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But the activists are unsatisfied with heavy regulatory burdens that require nearly a decade of extensive environmental and consumer safety testing before a new GE crop can be put on the market, a phenomenon that has made it far too expensive to use the technology to improve any but the largest-scale commodity crops.
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