Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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When she fell behind in the rent and her landlord warned that he would evict her, she knew she had to do something. She turned to a Manhattan consumer-bankruptcy lawyer, Charles Juntikka. Garcia was typical of many of his clients--embarrassed by her debts, upset over not being able...
While the Microsoft antitrust case attracts big headlines, a proposed law with potentially huge adverse consequences for competition and consumer welfare is quietly making headway in a few states, promoted by none other than Microsoft, along with some other software and on-line service companies.
These and other problems with UCITA are why every major consumer organization has opposed UCITA, including the National Consumer Law Center, the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union. Twenty-four state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission senior staff have also expressed concerns.
Decker said the University must increase the consumer power of its workers--something she said the report's recommendations would not.
Yet the economy has rolled merrily along, doing what supposedly could not be done. True, a sudden March flare-up in consumer prices--far larger than could be blamed on gas-pump inflation--indicated that labor costs may at last be starting a troublesome rise. Yet employment figures for the...