In Canada, a person can file a consumer proposal as an alternative to bankruptcy.

A consumer proposal is a negotiated settlement between a debtor and their creditors.

The creditors have 45 days to accept or reject the consumer proposal.

A proposal for the sale of the UK's social housing stock claimed that the " perpetual search for profitability " of private-sector owners would " them to discover and produce what the consumer wants " and that, in this way, the market was " more genuinely democratic than the public sector, involving the decisions of far more individuals and at much more frequent intervals ".

The trustee may also assist individual in preparing and submitting a consumer proposal to creditors.

* Where debts of an individual, excluding debts secured by the individual's principal residence, are not more than $ 250, 000, an insolvent debtor may file a consumer (" Division II ") proposal with his creditors.

* If the consumer proposal is not accepted by the creditors or the consumer proposal is not a viable option, an insolvent person may either voluntarily assign himself into bankruptcy or be involuntarily petitioned into bankruptcy by his creditors

`` As we look to the $800 billion economy that is predicted for 1970 and the increase of about 40% in consumer expenditures that will be required to reach that goal, management can well be restless about how this tremendous volume and number of new products will be created and marketed '', Peterson said.

It assumes that one party has an unlimited amount of information ( usually through some kind of expertise ) and can act as the ‘ information services provider ’ ( pg 268 ) while the other party acts as the ‘ information services consumer ’ ( Bordewijk and Kaam, 1986: 268 )

Modern biotechnology can be used to slow down the process of spoilage so that fruit can ripen longer on the plant and then be transported to the consumer with a still reasonable shelf life.

Some consumer cameras, in particular DV cameras, can " burn " ( overlay ) the tape timecode onto the composite output.

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the U. S. to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

In an entirely centralized economy, a universal survey of human needs and consumer wants is required before a comprehensive plan for production can be formulated.

The term " embedded database " can be confusing because only a small subset of embedded database products is used in real-time embedded systems such as telecommunications switches and consumer electronics devices.

* DV, MiniDV — used in most of today's videotape-based consumer camcorders ; designed for high quality and easy editing ; can also record high-definition data ( HDV ) in MPEG-2 format

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients have the same rights under which it was obtained and that manufacturers of consumer products incorporating free software provide the software as source code.

According to the type of pathogens and how risky they are, the intensity of the hurdles can be adjusted individually to meet consumer preferences in an economical way, without sacrificing the safety of the product.

Others argue that as the world's biggest consumer, with its own natural resources, the U. S. can wisely dictate what conditions can apply to goods and services imported for U. S. consumption, misunderstanding the nature of prices and their emergent, non-centrally planned, nature.

Under a HACCP-concept ( Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point ) radiation processing can serve and contribute as an ultimate critical control point before the food reaches the consumer.

These adjustments can have important effects on the consumer, but are not easily quantifiable ; people like what they like and everyone does not like the same thing.

Semiconductor lasers are typically very small, and can be pumped with a simple electric current, enabling them to be used in consumer devices such as compact disc players.

In practice, however, if consumer rationality / innovativeness is low and heuristics are preferred, monopolistic competition can fall into natural monopoly, even in the complete absence of government intervention.

Managers of privately owned companies are accountable to their owners / shareholders and to the consumer, and can only exist and thrive where needs are met.

Approaches to privacy can, broadly, be divided into two categories: free market, and consumer protection.

Modern computer-monitors typically display about 72 to 130 pixels per inch ( PPI ), and some modern consumer printers can resolve 2400 dots per inch ( DPI ) or more ; determining the most appropriate image resolution for a given printer-resolution can pose difficulties, since printed output may have a greater level of detail than a viewer can discern on a monitor.

Your competition is now proportionately greater -- you are competing not only against manufacturers in the same field but also against a vast array of manufacturers of other appealing consumer products.

The exchange of consumer and capital / labor goods does not imply that capital goods are valued accurately, only that it is possible for the valuations of capital goods to be made.

* The landlord is only a consumer of food and crafts and produces nothing at all.

Prakash, who is the director of the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at Tuskegee University and is president of the AgBioWorld Foundation expressed the opinion that, " ritics condemned biotechnology as something that is purely for profit, that is being pursued only in the West, and with no benefits to the consumer.

The theory of second degree price discrimination is a consumer is willing to buy only a certain quantity of a good at a given price.

A large majority of Nuon players that were sold in fact resembled typical consumer DVD players with the only noticeable difference being a Nuon logo.

For example, a good displays local network effects when rather than being influenced by an increase in the size of a product's user base in general, each consumer is influenced directly by the decisions of only a typically small subset of other consumers, for instance those he or she is " connected " to via an underlying social or business network.

For example, a consumer dishwasher would be controlled by an electromechanical cam timer costing only a few dollars in production quantities.

So customary units are still widely used on consumer products and in industrial manufacturing ; only in military, medical, and scientific contexts are SI units generally the norm.

VLB importantly offered an affordable high speed interface for consumer systems, as only by 1996 was PCI commonly available outside of the server market via the Pentium and Intel's Triton chipset.

Prior to the introduction of this new technology, moving image production was only available to the consumer ( or the artist for that matter ) by way of eight or sixteen millimeter film, but did not provide the instant playback that video tape technologies offered.

High-end FireWire controllers usually captured to Type 1 only, while " consumer " level controllers usually captured to Type 2 only.

This model includes a significant amount of privately owned firms that operate as a business for profit, but only for consumer goods and services.

Version 1 could only be copied on consumer equipment three or four times before artifacts became objectionable ( the ATRAC on the recording machine attempts to data reduce the already reduced signal ).

A consumer can unambiguously determine that one and only one of the following is the case:

Examples of perfect complements include left shoes compared to right shoes: the consumer is no better off having several right shoes if she has only one left shoe-additional right shoes have zero marginal utility without more left shoes, so bundles of goods differing only in the number of right shoes they includes-however many-are equally preferred.

The consumer level ' high ' programming language still shares features with OPL, but the developer toolkits were from then on focused on programmers familiar with C and only the Symbian operating system remains.

Their factory boasted having the only steam operated molding machine back in 1907 ; allowing them cost efficiencies passed on to the consumer.

) Both VHS Hi-Fi and Betamax Hi-Fi delivered flat full-range frequency response ( 20 Hz to 20 kHz ), excellent 70 dB signal-to-noise ratio ( in consumer space, second only to the compact disc ), dynamic range of 90 dB, and professional audio-grade channel separation ( more than 70dB ).