Class-action suits have long been a way for common consumers to use their strength in numbers to address grievances and apply accountability against companies but have recently hit high walls since the business-friendly Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 was passed (See "Class-Action Law Gums Up Courts").
Whether donating 1% for the planet, or giving away all holiday profits to charity, it is becoming increasingly common for companies to use their media presence and influence as a tool for environmental and social change.
Unfortunately, for the drugs in common use, only a limited number have been studied to determine what genes are responsible.
"It's increasingly common for people to use more than one device over the course of the day, and we saw an opportunity to help ease the transition among screens with the Logitech Bluetooth Illuminated Keyboard, " said Mike Culver, vice president of brand development for consumer computing platforms at Logitech.
For many folks, the SAT is a rite of passage and is the common yardstick people use, for better or worse, in comparing their scores to the scores of their friends, parents and siblings.
Holding on to a slightly slower iPhone might not be much of an issue if you primarily use it for common tasks -- calls and texts, e-mailing, Twitter and Facebook, reading, even watching movies.
"Restricting common generic strings for the exclusive use of a single entity could have unintended consequences, including a negative impact on competition, " the country's government wrote.
Once you understand that concept, it becomes important to recognize that EWZ , the most common vehicle investors use for Brazil exposure, is not really a Brazilian ETF.
The only common use in cardiology for MRI scanners, which cost millions of pounds each to install, is in the diagnosis of babies with congenital heart defects, where exact details of the layout of the tiny heart are vital to successful surgery.
Similarly, they should develop common safety and regulatory standards for the use of hydrogen and for the siting of hydrogen plants and refuelling stations.
As pastoralists, the Irob had been relatively individualistic, except for some agreements on the use of common pasture, but their growing emphasis on building and repairing dams to allow cultivation led to an increase in mutual assistance.
Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion said that citizens were guaranteed a right to keep firearms that were in common use in their homes for self-defense, but that the government could pass reasonable regulations concerning firearms and ammunition.
In 1975, fifteen private colleges created a common first-year application form for use by any of its member institutions.
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That's a common procedure to preserve bone fragments for later use, Rosser said.
PESC, to use the French acronym for the common foreign and security policy.
Doctors then temporarily implanted the skull piece in her abdomen -- a common procedure to preserve bone fragments for later use.
The only answer is for people to (gasp) use their common sense, make their own decisions about their welfare, and protect themselves and those in their immediate care.
Through online customer communities and other social apps, these organisations are inviting their customers to play an entirely new role in the company - a role those customers are often eager to fulfil: they readily help each other with common problems, provide tips for better product use and trumpet their enthusiasm for the brands they love.
"For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs, " said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The landowners had argued that a waterway must have a history of commercial use to be subject to common law, which says the public has the right to use it for navigation.
We share your sorrow and a resolve to stand with you in our common fight against those who use terrorism for their political goals.
It is common for economists and neoliberals to argue for the use of relatively unrestricted vouchers in lieu of in-kind or highly circumscribed welfare payments.
James Gosling, the Sun Microsystems engineer who devised Java, has a project called "Jackpot, " aimed at creating a common translator for the many software languages now in use.
The reason for this stems back to the Public Order Act of 1986, which states that a riot is an activity during which 12 or more persons must be present together and use and threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose.
But Open Spaces Society general secretary Kate Ashbrook said that the development is earmarked for registered common land which the public has the right to use.
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When did we get to the point that we no longer allow common sense to dictate how we use products for our home, family and pets?
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There is no better example than the world of chronic Lyme, a disease that might not exist and one for which the most common treatment, months or years of antibiotic use, poses a threat to us all by sapping the power of those drugs to fight disease.
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For millions of consumers who use dishwashers, fridges, ranges and other common appliances on recall lists, apparently not.
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