Due to the acquisition of the Atari Consumer Division by Jack Tramiel in 1984, a number of planned peripherals for the system were canceled.

There were plans to release the G7400 in the United States as the Odyssey³ and later as the Odyssey³ Command Center ; the system was demonstrated at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show and some prototypes have been found.

A request for reviewing the WARF patents 5, 843, 780 ; 6, 200, 806 ; 7, 029, 913 US Patent and Trademark Office were filed by non-profit patent-watchdogs The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, and the Public Patent Foundation as well as molecular biologist Jeanne Loring of the Burnham Institute.

Consumer patterns were also shifting at this time, as purchasing power was becoming stronger and more accessible to a wider range of families.

In 2008, Hyundai Santa Fe and Hyundai Elantra were awarded 2008 Consumer Reports " top picks ".

The ratings were based on data from CMS, the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ( CAHPS ), Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set ( HEDIS ) data, and the Health Outcomes Survey ( HOS ).

Consumer wire recorders were marketed for home entertainment or as an inexpensive substitute for commercial office dictation recorders, but the development of consumer magnetic tape recorders starting in 1948 quickly drove wire recorders from the market.

Agricultural and home economics ( aka Family and Consumer Sciences ) departments were added in 1935 and housed near the present location of the cafeteria.

Provisions of the 1933 Banking Act that were later repealed or replaced include ( 1 ) Sections 5 ( c ) and 19, which required an owner of more than 50 % of a Federal Reserve System member bank ’ s stock to receive a permit from ( and submit to inspection by ) the Federal Reserve Board to vote that stock ( replaced by the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 ); ( 2 ) Section 8, which established the Federal Open Market Committee ( FOMC ) made up of representatives from each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks ( replaced by the Federal Reserve Board-dominated FOMC established by the Banking Act of 1935 ); ( 3 ) Section 11 ( b ), which prohibited interest payments on demand deposits ( repealed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 ) and authorized the Federal Reserve Board to limit interest rates on time deposits ( phased out by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 ), both of which interest limitations were incorporated into Regulation Q, and ( 4 ) Section 12, which prohibited Federal Reserve System member bank loans to their executive officers and required the repayment of outstanding loans ( replaced by the 1935 Banking Act ’ s regulation of such loans and modified by later legislation ).

In Australia, where the same products were on sale, GlaxoSmithKline issued a statement one week before the New Zealand court case confirming labelling discrepancies on its Ready to Drink range to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and undertook to remove all references to vitamin C from its labels.

Many systems were sold in the New Orleans area in the ensuing years before the first public demonstration of this integration occurred in 1982 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Illinois.

Consumer groups and others raised questions of privacy, access, and liability considerations which were more taken into consideration in some jurisdictions than in others.

A 1999 Consumer Reports study suggested that some polycarbonate bottles release unsafe amounts of Bisphenol A ; however industry critics contented the study demanded unreasonable conditions to which the bottles were subject.

It's just cheesy .” The Consumer Electronics Association reported that only 329, 000 boombox units without CD players were shipped in the United States in 2003, compared to 20. 4 million in 1986.

In 1979 the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection was abolished by the incoming Conservative government and its responsibilities were reintegrated into the Department of Trade.

During the approach to Christmas 2011, the Denver Post reported that Quizno's owners, CCMP Capital Advisors LLC and Consumer Capital Partners, were handing ownership to Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund controlled by billionaire Marc Lasry, while restructuring their $ 875, 000, 000 debt in an attempt to forestall filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Ford continued merging departments and reorganizing the executive branch throughout 1973 to the extent that, by the end of the year, there were only three program cabinets ( Development, Education and the Arts, and Consumer Protection and Regulation ) and four additional departments ( Human Resources, Justice, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, and Transportation ).

* The second generation Isuzu Trooper ( 1995 – 1997 ) models were rated " Not Acceptable " by Consumer Reports for their tendency to roll over during testing.

The Department of Prices and Consumer Protection was a short-lived United Kingdom government department created by the incoming Labour government in 1974 when the functions of the Department of Trade and Industry were divided between three new departments ( the Department of Trade, the Department of Industry and the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection ).

Consumer digital video recorders ReplayTV and TiVo were launched at the 1999 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA.

Two of these four candidates were actually Consumer Party candidates in PA.

The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's statistics from the Fourth of July festivities in 2003 indicate that sparklers were involved in a majority ( 57 %) of fireworks injuries sustained by children under five years of age.

The NDP won a majority government and Duignan served as a parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations from 1993 to 1995.

Together with the Austrian Ministry for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection, the Justice Ministry opened the discussion with a conference held in Vienna in June, 2005.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

In Australia, Trade is covered under Australian Treasury Guidelines for electronic commerce, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regulates and offers advice on how to deal with businesses online, and offers specific advice on what happens if things go wrong.

The FDA frequently works in conjunction with other federal agencies including the Department of Agriculture, Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection, and Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The H. J. Heinz Company (), commonly known as Heinz and famous for its " 57 Varieties " slogan and its ketchup, is a U. S Consumer packaged goods company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Consumer perception of foods treated with irradiation is more negative than those processed by other means.

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The group reformed again in 1995 with a line-up of Styrene, Dean and Logic to release a new album Conscious Consumer.

" At the same time, the investment community was worried about proposed legal reforms, including the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which dealt with matters such as credit card rates and lending requirements.

Furthermore, the NOM establishes the technical specifications and legal requirements for the protection of the Appellation of Origin of " Tequila ," in accordance with the current General Declaration of Protection of the Appellation of Origin of " Tequila ," the Law, the Industrial Property Law, the Federal Consumer Protection Law and other related legal provisions.

In 2003, Consumer Reports, based on complaints about 2002 model new cars that in general are less than one year usage, ranked Hyundai's reliability tied with Honda's ; however, J. D.

In 1997, the staff of the CPSC, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, examined and issued a recall for some Kinder Surprise illegally brought into the US with foreign labels.

In 1997, the staff of the CPSC, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, examined and issued a recall for some Kinder Surprise illegally brought into the US with foreign labels.

Consumer surplus is thus the definite integral of the demand function with respect to price, minus the definite integral of the constant function D ( P )= Q < sub > mkt </ sub > ( i. e. P < sub > mkt </ sub > Q < sub > mkt </ sub >), from the market price to the maximum reservation price ( i. e. the price-intercept of the demand function ):

Consumer Reports has noted that some third-party cartridges may contain less ink than OEM cartridges, and thus yield no cost savings ,< REF name =" Auto5I-7 "/> while Wilhelm Imaging Research claims that with third-party inks the lifetime of prints may be considerably reduced.

According to the auto editors of Consumer Guide it had " an unusually long option list for the era " so owners could have luxury and conveniences typically found in more expensive cars, and these options " came with a much higher profit margin " for the automaker.

One magazine devoted to providing consumers with accurate reviews of products is Consumer Reports, not to be confused with Consumers Digest.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 has clarified this area of concern by making changes to the U. S. Bankruptcy Code that include, along with many other reforms, language imposing a means test for Chapter 7 cases.

By July 2013, the business and housing components of BTH will be consolidated with the consumer components of SCSA to form the new Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency ; the remainder of SCSA and the Technology Agency will merge into the new Government Operations Agency ; and the transportation components of BTH along with the formerly separate California Transportation Commission will become part of the new Transportation Agency.

In the glossary on its website, The Conference Board defines the Consumer Confidence Survey as " a monthly report detailing consumer attitudes and buying intentions, with data available by age, income and region ".

* The Washington Post-ABC News Consumer Comfort Index is a consumer confidence index based on telephone interviews with 1, 000 randomly selected adults over the previous four-week period.