Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who had previously appeared on Sesame Street, called for a boycott of the show, saying that the CTW was " exploiting impressionable children ".

Consumer protection advocate, Stephen Barrett, is a strong supporter of the HONcode and has made efforts to improve compliance with its rules and to expose those who abuse it.

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who had been a guest on the show, urged parents to protest the move by boycotting the show.

* Consumer advocate Ralph Nader ran a write-in campaign in 1992 during the New Hampshire primary for the presidential nomination of both the Democratic and Republican parties.

: See also: Category: Consumer rights organizations ( organizations that advocate or lobby for consumer rights or educate consumers about their rights )

Late evenings ( when WTMJ is not airing sports play-by-play ) and overnights, WTMJ airs syndicated personalities such as Dennis Miller, Michael Savage, Laura Ingraham, along with the Wall Street Journal Report, Consumer advocate Clark Howard's program airs for an hour weekdays at 2pm.

* Consumerist-Consumer advocate: Now owned by Consumer Reports

The Public Sector Reform Plan and the Central Bank ’ s Consumer Protection Code advocate for the use of plain English in the public and financial sectors respectively.

Consumer activist Ralph Nader argued the act was an example of corporate welfare spawned by political corruption, because it gave away to incumbent broadcasters valuable licenses for broadcasting digital signals on the public airwaves.

It was founded by Ralph Nader in 1995 and was then called Consumer Project on Technology.

In addition Ribicoff was allied with Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader in creating the Motor Vehicle Highway Safety Act of 1966 which created the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ).

*" Beyond Nader: Consumer Protection and the Regulation of Advertising ," 90 Harv.

Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, said, " We have not seen any evidence of the kind of massive desecration that being alleged ... The kind of activity they're alleging not easily hidden, especially on a willful, large-scale basis.

Starting January 10, 2008, eBay said sellers can only accept PayPal as payment for the categories " Computing > Software ", " Consumer Electronics > MP3 Players ", " Wholesale & Job Lots > Mobile & Home Phones ", and " Business, Office & Industrial > Industrial Supply / MRO ".

At a July 13, 2004, Senate Banking Committee hearing on the effects of the GLBA five years after passage, the Legislative Director of the Consumer Federation cited Roger Ferguson ’ s 2003 speech and stated the “ extravagant promises ” of universal banking had “ proven to be mostly hype .” He noted that advocates of repealing Sections 20 and 32 had said “ anks, securities firms, and insurance companies would merge into financial services supermarkets ” and, after five years, some mergers had occurred “ but mostly within the banking industry, not across sectors .” Within the banking industry, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress in 2004 that commercial bank consolidation had “ slowed sharply in the past five years .”

During the Principal Group affair, which he left primarily in the hands of Treasurer Dick Johnston and Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Elaine McCoy, a photographer captured a shot of Getty playing golf while his press secretary had said that he was " working out of the office ".

Carol Tucker-Foreman of the Consumer Federation of America said of Veneman, “ Secretary Veneman recognized the increasing problem of obesity in this country and took some steps to begin to address it.

In July 1955, the first positive review of a transistor radio appeared in the Consumer Reports that said, " The transistors in this set have not been used in an effort to build the smallest radio on the market, and good performance has not been sacrificed.

Consumer Ombudsman official Bente Øverli said: " Cars cannot do anything good for the environment except less damage than others.

' The decision to cease publication of the Review is a difficult one made after a careful study of the magazine's prospects in a challenging business climate ,' said Todd Larsen, chief operating officer at Dow Jones Consumer Media Group.

Mr. Chan Wing-Kai, the head of the Consumer Complaints & Advice Council, said, " The percentage of complaints made by individual visitors is 9. 3 %, which is relatively low.

In early 2009, the Financial Services Consultative Consumer Panel, tasked with monitoring the performance of the Central Bank, said that most consumers have lost “ significant amounts of money ” due to the inadequacies of the financial regulatory structure.

The Consumer Consultative Panel, in December 2009 said that they were unable to function for almost a year because officials ignored requests for meetings and " we believe it is unacceptable that the board of the financial regulation section has failed to take responsibility for their stewardship of the organisation during the last six years. They did not understand many of the sectors and financial products it regulates.

" The messages promoted by the indoor tanning industry fly in the face of scientific evidence ," said David C. Vladeck, Director of the FTC ’ s Bureau of Consumer Protection.

In January 2002 the Guest Choice Network became the Center for Consumer Freedom, a change of name the group said reflected that " the anti-consumer forces expanding their reach beyond restaurants and taverns going into your communities and even your homes.

The Auto Editors of Consumer Guide said, " In its dozen years on the market, Chevette had earned a reputation for being a simple, straightforward car offering high fuel economy and steadfast reliability.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said on 15 December 2010 that it would not oppose SGXs takeover of ASX.

In 1994, the U. S. FDA Consumer magazine said: " No health claims for Gerovital have been substantiated, and FDA considers it an unapproved new drug.

It is said that sales were affected by bad press when the 1996 to 1997 models were rated " Not Acceptable " by Consumer Reports for their tendency to roll over during testing.

Consumer Reports said that the VSC acted too slowly, and if a wheel hit a curb or slid off the pavement, a rollover accident could occur.

The shared-platform Toyota 4Runner passed the test, and while Consumer Reports said it knew of no actual incidents, it recommended a software fix.

Lucy Siegle, Ethical Living correspondent to UK Sunday newspaper The Observer, has said that " Ethical Consumer approaches ethical issues with a mind-boggling thoroughness and integrity that makes everyone else look like a charlatan.

In March 2006 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it would not oppose the takeover, competition would not be impacted due to existing competition between ARG and QR being limited.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton.

Consumer confidence is one measure used to evaluate economic sentiment.

* NTC Thermistors are used throughout the Consumer Appliance industry for measuring temperature.

A manager from one of the agencies involved in testing, Guangdong Consumer Associates, blamed " unsanitary raw materials used in production " for the high bacteria counts.

Market basket analysis has also been used to identify the purchase patterns of the Alpha Consumer.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

Commonly, remote controls are Consumer IR devices used to issue commands from a distance to televisions or other consumer electronics such as stereo systems, DVD players and dimmers.

And in Consumer Research: Postcards from the edge, when discussing behavioral and economic studies, the authors contrasted the " enclosed locations " used with Large Group Awareness Trainings with the " relatively open " environment of a " variety store ".

Consumer theory can also be used to analyze a consumer's choice between leisure and labor.

According to a statement from Kim McMiller, an Associate Director of Consumer Relations, a two-stage process is used to make Oreo cookies.

There are roughly 80 different event codes that are currently used in EAS and are part of the voluntary Consumer Electronics Association ( CEA ) standard for SAME protocol receiver decoder units.

Consumer IRDs, commonly called set-top boxes, are used by end users and are much cheaper compared to professional IRDs.

The most common type of market basket is the basket of consumer goods, used to define the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ).

In June 2008, the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety suspended the registration of eight neonicotinoid pesticide seed treatment products used in oilseed rape ( canola ) and sweetcorn, a few weeks after honeybee keepers in the southern state of Baden Württemberg reported a wave of honeybee deaths linked to one of the pesticides, clothianidin.

** Consumer Safety Officer, a position title used by the Food and Drug Administration

The term " ethical consumer ", now used generically, was first popularised by the UK magazine the Ethical Consumer, first published in 1989.

The principal is adjusted to the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ), the commonly used measure of inflation.

She used to run a family business in Devon and was chair of the National Consumer Council from 1990 to 1996.

* Consumer audio and high fidelity audio receivers and AV receivers used by home stereo listeners and audio and home theatre system enthusiasts as well as audiophiles.

His previous brainchild, TRON, the universal RTOS used in Japanese Consumer Electronics has had limited adoption in other countries.

The Consumer Federation of America Foundation disputes these statistics, saying that a Department of Justice study found that guns were used defensively 62, 000 times between 1987 and 1992.

* Distance Selling Regulations-Name commonly used when referring to the Consumer Protection ( Distance Selling ) Regulations 2000 DSR

Consumer reporting agencies ( CRAs ) are entities that collect and disseminate information about consumers to be used for credit evaluation and certain other purposes, including employment.