The vast majority of these cards promise 0% interest for at least six months, says Chi Chi Wu, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, a consumer-advocacy group in Boston.
He was chairman of the Kentucky Bar Association Bankruptcy Section in 2006-07 and has been a speaker on consumer law topics and foreclosure defense at numerous continuing legal education seminars in Kentucky and nationally at seminars and conferences sponsored by AARP, The National Consumer Law Center, and the National Association of Consumer Advocates.
"The sufficient-income provision is hopelessly vague, " says Chi Chi Wu, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center.
"The story here is that CEO confidence is holding steady, " says Lynn Franco, director of the Consumer Research Center at the Conference Board.
"Perhaps the silver lining to this otherwise dismal report is that Consumer Confidence may be nearing a bottom, " said Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center.
"I'm skeptical that this is going to suddenly result in a huge downturn of lending in this area, " said John Van Alst, staff attorney with the National Consumer Law Center in Boston.
The decision by Judge Ronald Gould chastises lawyers at prominent firms Lieff Cabraser and the National Consumer Law Center for knowingly setting up the conflict and failing to alert the court about it.
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Not a meaningful difference, says John Santa, director of Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, a research arm of Consumer Reports magazine.
This new mash-up of models brings anonymous consumer transaction data center stage.
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We are placing the consumer at the center of all interactions and trying to evaluate the best media options along the path to transaction.
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Once upon a time, there was a capitalist system where firms competed against each other, and the consumer was the center of the economic universe, the beginning and the ending of every economic activity.
Justin Wilson at the Center for Consumer Freedom, created by restaurants and food companies.
"Get prepared to receive this letter, " says Dr. John Santa, director of the Consumer Reports health ratings center.
Justin Wilson, senior research analyst at the Center for Consumer Freedom.
"You can lose your reputation in a year, but it takes five to 10 years to rebuild it, " said David Champion, senior director of the Consumer Reports Automotive Test Center.
Rick Berman is the Executive Director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a nonprofit coalition supported by restaurants, food companies and consumers to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Consumer's Union support this measure, which combines opt-in and opt-out principles.
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As a result, a wide range of advocacy groups, from the nursing home industry to consumer groups such as the Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA) are urging Medicare to revisit the observation rules.
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"It's a pretty clear case of deception, " said Justin Brookman, director of consumer privacy project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet advocacy nonprofit that gets some of its funding from Google.
Hadoop is advancing from the realm of the consumer and into the enterprise data center.
"This can be a very easy way around the Card Act, " says Josh Frank, a senior researcher at the Center for Responsible Lending, a consumer group.
The Wrestlemania Command Center has utility beyond the interested consumer.
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Today, it is particularly the consumer product companies that are putting customers at the center of innovation, involving them in product design and service development.
Other consumer-advocacy groups, including Consumers Union and the Center for Democracy and Technology, praised the bill, as did four big technology companies: Hewlett-Packard Co.
Nutrition lobbyist Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says consumer advocates heard the same kind of complaining from the packaged foods industry before they were required to put nutrition information on the backs of food items.
Last month, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, such devices took center stage with new boxes from TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ) and newcomer Moxi , whose console took the show's top prize (see story, p. 90).
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put gaming front and center when he delivered the opening keynote Wednesday night at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The National Center on Elder Abuse has partnered with the Eldercare Locator to produce a consumer guide that is now available to help stem elder financial abuse.
While other people testifying, such as privacy advocate Justin Brookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology, pointed out that this is a problem for consumer privacy, Weinstein just expressed jealousy.
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Jeffrey Chester, president of the Center for Digital Democracy, argued that telecoms would be tempted to sell the consumer data they collect in the process of that surveillance or use it for advertising.
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