The Consumer Electronics Show has an area for companies to demonstrate products that save energy,reduce waste and use recycled materials.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

An industry group, the Financial Services Roundtable, says it supports many of the administration's proposals but not for a consumer protection agency.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Tara Dunion from the Consumer Electronics Association is a spokeswoman for the show which ended Sunday.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

Until this past month, the safety standard for consumer paints was six hundred parts per million.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

"I don't want to spend more than twenty dollars for a backpack." Consumer spending is seventy percent of the economic activity in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

That's a view shared by Gregory Jaffe at the consumer group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of the U.S.economy and is closely linked to unemployment.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

The government also is fighting deflation shrinking prices for consumer goods and assets.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

It's completely out of date." Stanley says inconsistencies in the law have made it easier for law enforcement and government agencies to demand that service providers give them consumer data stored on cloud servers.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The strikes have mainly hit foreign companies. This is causing problems for those manufacturers that shifted production to China to take advantage of lower labor costs and to cash in on the potential consumer market.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24