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

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

It can be honed but those are some of the skills for a consumer internet company and one that is growing this quickly that is just essential.

是可以通过磨练而得的,但是对于增长如此迅速的,客户导向型互联网公司来说,有一些技能是不可习得的。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

It amounts to 2 to 3% of calories for the average consumer, and as I mentioned, Trans fats are not so good.

平均每位消费者,有2-3%的热量来自反式脂肪,正如我所说,反式脂肪不那么好

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

It says the price index contained this amount of beef, this amount of sheep wool, this amount of sole leather, and this amount of corn; that was the first consumer price index ever used for financial contracts.

指数中包括这些数量的牛肉,这些数量的羊毛,这些数量的鞋底皮,这些数量的玉米,这是在金融合约里出现的,第一个消费者物价指数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

Now, it raises lots of interesting issues if a company does that and then boasts about it on the packaging or in marketing, because then people could overestimate how good those products are for them, so a lot of consumer education has to be done.

现在如果一个公司改进之后,在其包装,或市场上大肆宣扬,会引发许多争议,因为人们可能因此高估了,这些食品对其健康起到的作用,可见消费者应该对此有更多了解

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Stephen Baker is the vice president of industry analysis for the consumer electronics market research group NPD.

VOA: special.2010.12.27

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

VOA: special.2011.01.10

"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

There are both private and public hospitals and it's very consumer driven because most people pay for their own medical care.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

It would also establish a new consumer protection agency that will look out for investors, and not banks.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Wells Fargo chief economist John Silva said, "For an economist it does reflect some underlying improvement in consumer spending and in business investment.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

Nevertheless,rising confidence is a welcome sign, as consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S.economic activity.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

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

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

Consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S.economic activity.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

But recent reports showed U.S.consumer confidence dipping and consumer spending down as government subsidies to purchase new cars have ended and tax credits for first-time home buyers are soon to expire.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

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