The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

Are you following competition willy-nilly -- trying to match dollar for dollar -- or are you experimenting with new means for reaching and influencing consumers??

Further research in the meaning of crises as experienced by the consumers of traditional social casework services -- including attempts to develop a typology of family structures, crisis problems, reaction mechanisms, and differential treatment approaches -- and the establishment of new experimental programs are imperative social needs which should command the best efforts of caseworkers in collaboration with community planners.

One of the significant developments in American-Jewish life is that the cultural consumers are largely the women.

Anarchist theorist Murray Rothbard argued that all government services, including defense, are inefficient because they lack a market-based pricing mechanism regulated by the voluntary decisions of consumers purchasing services that fulfill their highest-priority needs and by investors seeking the most profitable enterprises to invest in.

This section requires that all telecommunications companies in the U. S. take steps to ensure functionally equivalent services for consumers with disabilities, notably those who are deaf or hard of hearing and those with speech impairments.

Today, many TRS-mediated calls are made over the Internet by consumers who use broadband connections.

According to the study, more than nine out of 10 consumers are familiar with and have tried these foods, and about half report eating them frequently.

Since the bigger 1 / 4 " tapioca pearls are separately sold as " black pearls " ( 黑珍珠 ) in markets, this name was the logical first choice and is more popular with the consumers of the drink.

Against this backdrop, American exporters are finding quite favorable overseas markets for their products and U. S. consumers are responding to their general housing slowdown by slowing their spending.

They are the most common type of computer printer used by consumers.

However, Cambridge University and its subsidiary body UCLES are pioneers in trying to get some degree of accountability and quality control to consumers of English courses, through their CELTA and DELTA programs.

Most cranberries are processed into products such as juice, sauce, jam, and sweetened dried cranberries, with the remainder sold fresh to consumers.

The remaining are sold fresh to consumers.

Inbound calls are made by consumers, for example to obtain information, report a malfunction, or ask for help.

In contrast, outbound calls are made by agents to consumers, usually for sales purposes ( telemarketing ).

Typically when business people and economists talk of consumers they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality other than that expressed in the buy / not-buy decision.

As of all potential voters are also consumers, consumer protection takes on a clear political significance.

Only consumers are protected as per this act and any person, entity or organization purchasing a commodity for commercial reasons are exempted from any benefits of this act.

Additionally, the majority of commercial didgeridoo recordings available are distributed by multinational recording companies and feature non-Aboriginals playing a New Age style of music with liner notes promoting the instrument's spirituality which misleads consumers about the didgeridoo's secular role in traditional Aboriginal culture.

Without the price system to match consumer utility to incentives for production, or even indicate those utilities " without providing incentives ", state planners are much less likely to invest in new ideas to satisfy consumers ' desires.

Those who invest in accordance with consumers desires are rewarded with profits, those who do not are forced to become more efficient or go out of business.

The EPA estimates that by 2010, the overall costs of complying with the program for businesses and consumers will be $ 1 billion to $ 2 billion a year, only one fourth of what was originally predicted.

In 1999 the National Arbitration Forum began advocating that such contracts should be drafted so as to force consumers to waive the right to a class action completely, and such provisions have become very popular among businesses.

The Federal Reserve Banks began a multi-year restructuring of their check operations in 2003 as part of a long-term strategy to respond to the declining use of checks by consumers and businesses and the greater use of electronics in check processing.

Products available to consumers may diminish or disappear as businesses no longer find it sufficiently profitable ( or may be operating at a loss ) to continue producing and / or distributing such goods at the legal prices, further exacerbating the shortages.

The tertiary sector of industry involves the provision of services to other businesses as well as final consumers.

These products are then either exported or sold to domestic consumers and to places where they are suitable for use by other businesses.

The Minister for the Environment was criticised for allegedly changing the law to suit one company and other agencies protested the law change as damaging to small businesses while the government defended their decision stating that the move was a positive one for Irish consumers.

* State Security Breach Notification Laws ( California and many others ) require businesses, nonprofits, and state institutions to notify consumers when unencrypted " personal information " may have been compromised, lost, or stolen.

These include a number of Jardines ’ long-standing businesses such as Jardine Engineering Corporation ( JEC ), Jardine Shipping Services, Jardine Aviation Services, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals, Jardine Schindler and Gammon Construction as well as more contemporary interests that reflect the demands of Asian consumers ; among them Pizza Hut restaurants in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam and Jardine OneSolution IT services.

The high levels of debt normally take years to work off, and create a prolonged slump as businesses and consumers rebuild their balance sheets.

Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the loyalty programs due to companies like Foursquare, Cardmobili and Shopkick providing new ways for consumers and businesses to communicate.

# A retail merchant or retailer, sells commodities to consumers ( including businesses ).

When animal spirits are on ebb, consumers do not want to spend and businesses do not want to make capital expenditures or hire people.

What is more, businesses in competition will innovate to create new products ; another benefit for consumers.

" As of 2006 many VoIP companies offer service to consumers and businesses.

** Web. com, a public company that offers websites and other services for small businesses and consumers

In addition, new businesses, catering to a more affluent base of consumers and those that can afford increased commercial rent, move in, further increasing the appeal to more affluent migrants and decreasing the accessibility to the poor.

One branch of the criticism focuses on whether the Act improves competition and benefits consumers, or merely aids inefficient businesses at the expense of more innovative ones.

" Consequently, if the primary goal of the act is to protect consumers, and consumers are protected by lower prices, the act may be harmful if it reduces economy of scale, a price-lowering mechanism, by breaking up big businesses.

This is echoed by the European Central Bank itself which supports the coins, stating it allows businesses to calculate prices more exactly to attract consumers, such as 99 cents.

In order to obtain the maximum possible value from the available market, businesses try to ‘ segment ’ the market – that is to divide up the market into groups of consumers whose preferences are broadly similar – and to adapt their products to attract these customers.

News agencies have driven awareness of information theft to the extent that most consumers, healthcare organizations and businesses understand the importance of destroying confidential information.

These competition laws make illegal certain practices deemed to hurt businesses or consumers or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior.