Shiller took on Illinois' dentists when in 1978 the Uptown Peoples Community Services Center joined consumers groups in a federal lawsuit which attempted to break up dentists' monopoly on fitting dentures.
Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act in 2010 after a wave of incidents involving tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach sickened thousands of people and led major food makers to join consumer advocates in demanding stronger government oversight.
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation's food safety system on Tuesday, after tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach sickened thousands of people in the last few years and led major food makers to join consumer advocates in demanding stronger government oversight.
A small number of consumers [ 24] passionate to their cause join consumer movements such as the maternity coalition and home birth Australia, organisations dedicated to promoting natural childbirth.
Everybody had strong incentives to join: consumers, companies and, most important, the networks themselves (the internet is in fact a "network of networks").
Health care is emerging as a top issue in the 2008 presidential race, as businesses join consumers in demanding action to curb costs and cover the uninsured.
Or there wasn't until last November, when this instrument of consumer-culture satire joined actual consumer culture: 10,000 cases and counting of Brawndo have sold online or via convenience stores in the Northeast and other regions.
Microsoft has joined many consumer groups in supporting stronger safeguards.
After rates continued to rise, Mr. Abdala joined other consumer leaders from all over the province in calling for a payment strike.
Mr. Cordray, 52, joined the consumer bureau in December after narrowly losing a re-election bid for Ohio attorney general to Mike DeWine, a Republican who suggested during the campaign that Mr. Cordray was antibusiness.
