Consumers ' councils would act as decision-making bodies for consumption planning, and producers ' councils-which are agglomerations of several workers ' councils-act as decision-making bodies for production planning.

Opposition to the nomination came from the Organic Consumers Association, which outlined in a November 2008 report several reasons why it believed Vilsack would be a poor choice for the position, particularly as energy and environmental reforms were a key point of the Obama campaign.

The Digital Media Consumers ' Rights Act ( DMCRA ) is a proposed law in the United States that directly challenges portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and would intensify Federal Trade Commission efforts to mandate proper labeling for copy-protected CDs to ensure consumer protection from deceptive labeling practices.

Consumers would not have an alternative to purchase electricity from a cheaper competitor, because the wires running into their homes belong to the monopolist.

Consumers often find these markups unreasonably excessive, especially because there are many instances where no alternative purchase method is offered that would allow avoidance of the fees.

Consumers would prefer that the firm and its competitors produce less of the product and charge a higher price, to internalize the external cost.

The eastward extension would include new stations at Consumers Road, Victoria Park Avenue, Warden Avenue, Kennedy Road, Agincourt GO Station, and Progress Avenue, terminating at the existing Scarborough Centre Station on the Scarborough RT line.

Consumers would not have noticed the small drop in system frequency ; other aspects of their supply such as voltage, remained perfect.

# Consumers / the man-on-the-street-ultimately aim also to involve these groups in these same ethical issues ( and ultimately potentially the whole range of democratic issues ) through e-democratic-type participation ( here the level of detail needed to explain how such an e-democratic system would function is not provided-a relatively high level of detail is needed before it appears sufficiently tangible ).

The organization proposed would also engage promote boycotts, educational campaigns, and have alliances with other organizations, which were activities Consumers Research avoided.

In 1936 he left as director of Consumers Research after its head F. J. Schlink fired three striking employees who had tried to form a union, and joined with Amherst College professor Colston Warne ( who would chair the CU board from 1936 to 1979 ) to found Consumers Union and Consumer Reports.

Petkantchin argues that “ benefits to consumers of this partial privatization, had it gone ahead, would have been very limited .” Consumers would have remained “ captive, with no real alternative ” ( p. 10 ).

The founding of IOCU was initially planned by Elizabeth Schadee, who would later chair the board of Holland's Consumentenbond, and Caspar Brook, who was the first director of the England's Consumers ' Association.

Belgium's Association des Consommateurs and the Australian Consumers ' Association joined the three conference sponsors as the five founding organizations who would provide representatives for the international organization's initial council.

Consumers making use of the " buy term and invest the difference " concept separate their investments from their insurance by setting aside money every month equal to the premium that a permanent plan would require, then use a portion of this money for the term premium and place the rest in a tax-deferred investment vehicle.

Consumers would be able to call and order all of their energy from Enron in one bill.

Consumers of electricity will also pay lower prices if generation capacity that would have been used is from a higher-cost source of power generation.

Consumers who can afford the higher prices may still buy, but others may forgo the purchase altogether, demand a better price, buy a similar item, or shop elsewhere.

Ltd ( also known as the Consumers ' Association, still the official name of the charity ).

Consumers still rely on this property to distinguish it from cheaper glasses.

Consumers are most likely to see the effects of this act when they notice that certain checks ( or image of ) are no longer being returned to them with their monthly statement, even though other checks are still being returned.

Despite claims from Tesco that they have matched prices in the Republic of Ireland with prices in Northern Ireland, a November 2009 survey by Consumers Choice magazine has claimed that, on average, prices are still 18 % more expensive in the Republic

Consumers may still dispute a debt verbally or after the thirty-day period has elapsed, but doing so waives the right to compel the debt collector to produce verification of the debt.

Consumers who choose to have their names removed from lists used for prescreened solicitations may well still receive offers of credit or insurance by mail or telephone, but such offers will not be based on the credit records maintained by the CRAs.

The first commercial nuclear steam supply system was sold to Consumers Power Company of Michigan for the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, which is still in operation.

* Consumers and innovators have the right to know basic information about broadband service, like how network providers are managing their networks.

Consumers did not know that their chocolate was produced using slave labor.

Consumers ' knowledge about a brand also governs how manufacturers and advertisers market the brand.

Consumers were expected to learn how to tweak the emulation software used to emulate other standards, an activity not necessary with many other cards that emulated the Sound Blaster through their sound hardware.

1991: Consumers Health Forum and the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists ( ASCEPT ) held a meeting to discuss how prescribing in Australia might be improved

Thwaites also acted to support local business: when he discovered there was a monopoly on the supply of gas in Southwark, Thwaites set up the Surrey Gas Consumers company in 1849, a mutual association of businesses, to get alternative and much cheaper supplies.

Consumers paid 10 shillings a quarter and could use as much electricity as they liked.

Consumers tend to place a lot of importance on beer heads: too much of a head is undesirable because it detracts from the mass of the drink ( similar to carbonated soda drinks ), but on the other hand, a beer drink is viewed as incomplete unless it has a head, and the specific form of head expected for the type of beer.

Consumers will be willing to buy a given quantity of a good, at a given price, if the marginal utility of additional consumption is equal to the opportunity cost determined by the price, that is, the marginal utility of alternative consumption choices.

Consumers who were already willing to buy at the initial price benefit from a price reduction ; also they may buy more and receive even more consumer surplus, and additional consumers who were unwilling to buy at the initial price but will buy at the new price and also receive some consumer surplus.

Consumers of one product could be more price elastic than the consumers of the other product ( and therefore more sensitive to changes in the product's price ).

" The Consumers Digest Best Buys are not based solely on price or features, but value to consumers ( from Complete Car Guide 2010 ).

The magazine awards its Consumers Digest Best Buy seal to products its staff judges to be of the best quality for the most reasonable price.

“ Consumers tell us that ATM fees are excessive and unfair " say authors of the report The price of disloyalty: Why competition has failed to lower ATM fees " There is substantial public opposition to ATM fees.

Consumers who have signed contracts with an electricity retailer will pay the price set out in their contract.

Consumers who have signed contracts with a natural gas marketer will pay the price set out in their contract.

Consumers find they must now pay a higher price for the same product.

Consumers who are aware of this, and who value their time, effort and opportunity costs above the value of the rebate may choose to intentionally ignore a non-instant rebate that requires such procedures and assume the out-the-door price when considering the purchase.