It encourages competition and investigates anti-competitive practices in industry, while remedying trading practices which are against consumer interests.
Allowing firms to use trademark law as a trade barrier limits competition, especially on price, damaging consumer interests.
More federal help for Big Wind may now be on the way through a regulatory end-run around Congress and consumer interests.
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The LDP, a pro-American, pro-business consequence of the cold war, was undermined by two decades in which consumer interests and non-profit groups slowly mounted a challenge to its paternalism.
Therefore, a rational policy must be based on appropriate trade-offs between consumer and producer interests.
Are you going to sue the business interests that caused consumer-oriented laws to be pushed aside?
Less evident in this debate are the interests of the consumer.
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"Firms are not giving the advice or offering the solution that is in the best interests of the consumer, but instead that which is most profitable to them, " it said.
As a fourth strategic consideration, Carnival and Royal Caribbean, along with smaller companies, would therefore do well to consolidate their messages about safety, about customer commitment, about whether this industry has become too big to function in the best interests of the consumer.
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Buffett famously does not pay a dividend to shareholders, preferring to plow that money back into Berkshire Hathaway, a diverse holding company that has interests in insurance and consumer goods companies.
As ever, striking the balance between the interests of business and the consumer will be a tricky one to achieve.
Appealing to the interests of the lowly, overlooked consumer is a public relations, tactic, of course.
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Jamie Wimberly of the Consumer Energy Council of America, which represents the interests of smaller users of electricity, insists that the real gains will come with the impending convergence between the energy and telecoms sectors.
Before that, Maris' interests actually lay more on the side of consumer health than consumer technology.
Now, that having been said, I don't doubt, and you see it in reports today, very organized, very powerful special interests that will oppose the creation of the consumer agency or different aspects of the proposal.
Cinnovation has interests in hospitality, real estate, financial services and consumer goods.
The special interests and their agents in Congress claim that reforms like the Consumer Financial Protection Agency will stifle consumer choice and that updated rules and oversight will frustrate innovation in the financial markets.
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The Consumer Council for Water (CC Water), an independent body representing the interests of consumers, warns that it is low income customers that are really feeling the pinch.
For the first time in history, we put in place a consumer watchdog -- someone whose only job is to look out for the interests of everyday Americans.
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"If you are looking at trying to get the interests of the insurance company to be essentially the same as a consumer who is getting that health insurance, then the cooperative is the way to do that, " Oemichen said.
So I think that if there were a referendum or plebiscite in Maine, I feel pretty confident that Democrats, independents and Republicans would support the confirmation of a consumer watchdog whose job it is to look out, in Washington, for their interests in their dealings with financial institutions.
Mr. Warren Buffett has his finger on the pulse of the early 21st Century economy and his interests easily seem to switch between a belief in resurgent rail traffic and faith in consumer food products.
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