After years of confrontation and high bombast, the technology community, consumer groups and key policymakers appear to be coalescing around a reasonable resolution to the infamous 'net neutrality' debate.
OBAMA APPOINTS CONSUMER CHIEF President Obama touched off a fierce election-year confrontation with Congressional Republicans, "defying their deep opposition to appoint Richard Cordray as director of a new consumer protection agency and fill three labor board vacancies," Helene Cooper and Jenifer Steinhauer report.
The Federal Reserve cut its main interest rate by half a percentage point, an aggressive move to ward off renewed economic weakness at a time when the terrorist threat and the confrontation with Iraq are weighing down business and consumer confidence.
Amid a financial crisis that has left Spain with a 20 percent jobless rate, the four-part confrontation is also seen as a rare opportunity to lift consumer spending.
A1 Northwest's Crucial Battle As the labor confrontation between Northwest Airlines and its striking mechanics union continues, the battle for consumer trust is becoming increasingly critical.
In broader terms, the political confrontation pits taxpayers, who now form the core of the center-right coalition, against tax consumers who form the core of the center-left.
The availability of document hearings means consumers can save the expense of missing work and can choose to avoid a face-to-face confrontation with an opposing lawyer.
There is no stage, Broadway or continental, for this historic confrontation; rather, it is unfolding across the sprawling cross-national architecture of servers, fiberoptic cables, radiowaves, and consumer screens of the 21st Century Internet.
Pinned by the camera and lit like consumer products, his subjects have nowhere to hide, but, since most of them are celebrities, they not only survive the confrontation and the glare — they look marvellous.
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — President Obama touched off a fierce election-year confrontation with Congressional Republicans on Wednesday, defying their deep opposition to appoint Richard Cordray as director of a new consumer protection agency and fill three labor board vacancies.
