Sentence examples for office of consumer from inspiring English sources

The recent problems notwithstanding, Mr. Davis said the office of consumer affairs should remain under the control of the city.

Carmen L. Balber, the director of the Washington office of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group, said: "We applaud the administration for the new reporting requirements.

Yet that same day, he went to work for Attorney General John J. Farmer Jr. as a senior investigator in the office of consumer protection.

Carmen L. Balber, director of the Washington office of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group, said: "The success of health care reform depends, in part, on the cooperation of the insurance industry.

"This new guidance helps improve transparency so that consumers know the value and quality of the plan they have," said Steve Larsen, the director of oversight in the agency's office of consumer information and insurance oversight.

Gene Kimmelman, the director of the Washington office of Consumer Union, a consumer advocacy group, said that telephone companies are expanding their digital subscriber lines, which are very good at transmitting information.

Mr. Powell, of the Nassau Office of Consumer Affairs, said consolidation in the industry has had an impact, too.

Mr. Obama should restore the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, which vanished during the Clinton years, and appoint a director who has both the president's ear and the authority to rebuild the consumer protection agencies that were undercut or hollowed out by the fiercely anti-regulatory Bush administration.

Mrs. Knauer (pronounced NOW-er) had directed Pennsylvania's Bureau of Consumer Protection for 14 months when, in April 1969, Nixon appointed her the director of the Office of Consumer Affairs and his special assistant for consumer affairs, a newly created position that made her, at the time, the highest-ranking woman in the executive branch.

The Office of Consumer Affairs had been created by Lyndon B. Johnson, and during the 1968 presidential campaign Nixon had suggested that he might abolish it, reinforcing suspicions among advocacy groups that he was less than enthusiastic about consumer protection.

William N. Lund, the director of Maine's Office of Consumer Credit Regulation, said, "Some consumers told us they literally applied for a loan at noon, and by the time they got home that evening they got calls from competitors of the lender with whom they applied".