When buying an automobile, the green factor has a nice reward attached to it, placing the consumer right in the cross hairs of Environmental Ideals and Economic Deals.
"We're really pushing for a consumer's right to know what's in their water, " says Nneka Leiba, an environmental health researcher at the EWG.
"We continue to have serious concerns as to the long-term impact it may have on the motoring consumer and their right to mobility after an accident that was not their fault, " he said.
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Most health care costs do not show up in the Consumer Price Index right away, because it ignores employer health care expense and assigns only a 6% weight to the part employees pay themselves.
"Just as everyone is mobilising to get over the crisis, it would be wrong to take a step backwards regarding information that the consumer has the right to expect, " the ministers said in a joint statement.
The result is a procedure biased in favour of the trademark holder, which, Mr Froomkin argues, damages the consumer's right to use the Internet for purposes other than capitalism such as free speech, posting pictures of your children, or parody.
The right service offered to the consumer at a reasonable price at the right time.
In these cases, the consumer should have the right to expect a full refund, whether the game was purchased in physical or digital form.
Just imagine what other Americans cities could do with the right government and consumer support.
Right now, consumer confidence is at a level normally only seen during recessions.
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We need the platforms setting a baseline of privacy and security norms, but we need to get the balance right to ensure consumer choice and continued innovation.
Some companies, including Circuit City, have moved to a "drop shipping" arrangement, where wholesalers deliver goods right to the consumer without the retailer actually taking possession of them.
"Right now, consumer electronics sucks, car navigation sucks, " says Simonyi, who fled communist Hungary at age 17 in 1966 and later became one of the chief builders of Microsoft.
The president supports new consumer protections, including the right to emergency room insurance coverage, easier access to medical specialists, reform of appeal procedures and a repeal of the federal ban on consumers suing health plans.
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Surprisingly, provided the job situation, the consumer discretionary sector is burning hot right now.
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Which version contains the right ingredients for said consumer to do that value adding thing.
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It showed the appetite was there for the right event to enable consumer input.
The introduction of Firefox OS is coming at the right time to feed consumer demands.
And I think they have a right to expect basic consumer protections on all of these products that are so important to their lives.
"It shows that our efforts to bring prices down, lift skills up, and boost consumer confidence are going in the right direction, " Haugaard said.
Maybe so, but what the American economy needs right now is more consumer confidence, and the purchase of new cars will embolden a consumer class that has been too careful of late.
That said, the market is full of conflicting signals right now with August consumer confidence down by 25 percent, July pending homes slipping, and the four-week moving average of mortgage applications also dipping.
Health care and consumer staples are starting to blip on Callahan's radar, but he bets that there will be more money to be wrung out of consumer discretionary before the time is right to switch to those other sectors.
The European Community regards the protection of consumer data as a basic human right, one whose legal provisions, (The Right to Be Forgotten), grant legal provisions implemented in practice within the social and online context of European consumer behavior.
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George W. Bush may be grappling with low approval ratings, but at least one constituency must be pleased with the president right now: The consumer electronics business, which just received a government mandate that forces consumers to spend billions to replace or upgrade their television sets within three years.
The British Consumer Price Index (CPI) was right in line with expectations at 3.2% and the Core CPI reading surprisingly jumped to 3.1%.
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So when the consumer market opened up, they were right there.
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That Treasury sponsored turnaround was a once in a lifetime opportunity for GM to apologize to the American consumer and vow to now get it right.
Is it right to say that the consumer space has grabbed the ball for many kinds of innovation, especially in ease of use, collaboration, and mobile apps.
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