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• With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

  Bill Gross

  Government, Movement, Debt

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• Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

  Joseph Muscat

  Corruption, Taxes

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• Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

  David Robertson

  Winning, Signatures, Cards

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• Food choices affect health outcomes, and consumers need to have the latest, most up-to-date scientific information in making their food choices.

  Mark McClellan

  Choices, Needs, Outcomes

  "FDA cracks down on bogus health claims". www.cnn.com. December 18, 2002.

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• Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

  Greg Abbott

  Secret, Deceit, Daggers

  "Sony BMG sued by state of taxes over anti-piracy software" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. November 22, 2005.

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• We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.

  Steve Shaw

  Past, Agency, Years

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• Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.

  Mark Price

  Home, Common Sense, Benefits

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• Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.

  Eben Moglen

  Rights, Order, Issues

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• I believe that what works for the consumer is to be able to determine what they can pay -- even if it is nothing. (Just joking.) Unfortunately, so many depend on credit for living expenses, and the lower payments helped them in the immediate term. I am OK with that. For those who want their minimum to be more, you don't have to wait on your credit issuer to increase the payment -- do it on your own. For others, at this time, I think it's a horrible idea.

  Trina

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

  Bill Gurley

  Past, Years, Community

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• There is now more pressure on consumers than there has ever been and it is not sustainable.

  Betty Furness

  Pressure

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• Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not

  Marcus Garvey

  Self, Desire, World

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• The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, People, Essentials

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• One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can go online and comparison-shop. That was very hard to do before the Affordable Care Act, especially for people who had individual insurance policies.

  David Blumenthal

  People, Done, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.

  Faith Popcorn

  Individuality, Recognition, Crave

  Faith Popcorn (2001). “EVEolution: Understanding Women - 8 Essential Truths That Work In Your Business & Life”, p.12, BookBaby

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• Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Together, Moral

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• Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Exercise, Volunteer, Joy

  "Fulfilling My Life’s Mission Through the TOMS Shoes Movement" by Blake Mycoskie, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

  Sandra Lerner

  School, Math, Blue

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• I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.

  Erin O'Connor

  Thinking, Enough, Garments

  "Rags to riches: Erin O'Connor's fairtrade fashion". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.

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• My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

  David Pogue

  Technology, Self, Magic

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• Instead of creating aesthetically pleasing prose, you have to dig into a product or service, uncover the reasons why consumers would want to buy the product, and present those sales arguments in copy that is read, understood, and reacted to—copy that makes the arguments so convincingly the customer can’t help but want to buy the product being advertised.

  Robert W. Bly

  Creating, Want, Reason Why

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• The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Play, Roles, Economy

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Puppets, Corporations, Facts

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 9, p. 258, 1977.

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• Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

  Susan Hockfield

  Math, Engineering, Giving

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• The naturally colored products aren't as bright as the synthetically colored products, they're not as attractive to consumers. But, you know, it's the kind of thing that consumers simply would get used to very quickly.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Kind, Attractive, Used

  Source: www.npr.org

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