Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Archer's negotiations with the industry were a closed-door affair. When he began the sessions on Aug. 11, officials from Metabolife and seven other companies flanked both sides of the U-shaped mahogany conference table in the department's boardroom. No outside doctors or consumer advocates were invited--unusual...
As the package was prepared for formal presentation in November 1998, Texas' chief of food and drug safety under Archer was worried. The chief, Dennis Baker, called the softer proposals "quite disturbing" in comments e-mailed to Archer. "The rules as currently written," he wrote, "would only serve to facilitate...
Nader, a lawyer and consumer advocate who made his name in the '60s by exposing American cars as unsafe, urged civic-minded students to get involved in politics.
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataNot that inflation is actually apparent; witness Tuesday's pre-opening announcement that consumer prices were unchanged in April. "The markets are taking it on faith," says Baumohl, that Greenspan is right about lurking price pressures, and a half-point hike is seen as welcome proof...
Had the proposed plan to dismantle Microsoft been implemented 10 years ago, such innovations might never have found their way to broad consumer availability. They never could have moved from the "applications" company to the "OS" company that the Justice Department envisions. Consumers and developers would have been harmed.