Sentences with phrase «borne by all consumers»

The wage and work rule standards will increase labor costs — which ultimately will be borne by consumers.

This is a cost borne by all consumers whether they use a credit card or not.

Npower has blamed rising wholesale prices - up 66 per cent for electricity and 60 per cent for gas over the last year - but ministers are sceptical this cost has to be borne by consumers so swiftly.

These costs will be borne by consumers in the prices of goods they buy.

The second equilibria point is the «ebook - first» market - where the cost of printing, marketing, distribution, and physical sales are borne by consumers of physical books.

To date all operating nuclear power plants were developed by state - owned or regulated utility monopolies [2] where many of the risks associated with construction costs, operating performance, fuel price, and other factors were borne by consumers rather than suppliers.

In the United States, proposed cap - and - trade programs have run headlong into economic analyses from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) indicating most of the costs of the program would ultimately be borne by consumers, with carbon emitters receiving value far above any costs they bear.

The costs are often borne by the consumer.

Not exact matches

By making products relevant to current news topics, Vermont Teddy Bear was able to target their media outreach accordingly, which in turn resulted in increased visibility to a larger network of consumers.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

After rejecting Brooksley Born's attempt to regulate credit - default swaps at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1998, he served his banking benefactors by passionately supporting Robert Rubin and Larry Summers in pressing the Clinton Administration to repeal Glass - Steagall, opening the door to make consumer banking dependent on wild financial gambling by the likes of Citibank and what has become Bank of America.

$ 4 billion in the form of relief to aid consumers harmed by the unlawful conduct of JPMorgan, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual.

Automakers and their American consumers will bear the brunt caused by raising prices of two metals essential to the production of cars and trucks in the U.S. «The President's pending decision on tariffs and quotas for steel and aluminum trade highlights several unfortunate ironies,» said John Bozzella, President and CEO of Global Automakers.

Recently pressures have been brought to bear on Congress and the president by blacks, the elderly, women, consumers, public employees, welfare mothers, the poor, atheists, militant students, homosexuals, Indians, and minorities of all sorts.

Additionally, egg products are inspected by an onsite USDA inspector and the company follows good manufacturing practices to protect consumers from food borne illnesses.

We've made it our mission to help consumers end their summer differently in a way that only mike's can,» says Andy Horrow, Chief Marketing Officer, Mike's Hard Lemonade Co. «And yes, our sweepstakes winner gets to be waited on hand and foot by a bear in a bikini.»

The heart symbol system is acknowledged by the Finnish national authorities, and the National Nutrition Council recommends consumers to use products bearing the heart symbol.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is an agency within the US Federal government requiring testing by an independent agency for weight bearing while in motion and tests for lead on the buckles.

These costs are usually borne by hospitals and practices, typically using third - party vendors, but may be passed on to payers, consumers, and taxpayers.

Some weekend musings, bear with me.I read a clever idea in Wired earlier this week: reduce solid waste by integrating packaging into popular consumer products.

Based on these assumptions, consumers would likely be surprised and even shocked to learn that a likely human carcinogen that triggers massive gastointestinal inflammation and symptoms in many people continues to be allowed by the National Organics Standards Board (NOSB) for inclusion on the list of ingredients permitted in certified organic food — food bearing the USDA Organic label!

According to a recent study by ExactTarget and CoTweet, more than four in five consumers have ended relationships with brands on Facebook, Twitter or e-mail, «because of irrelevant, too frequent or boring messages.»

Consumers expect that products, software or services bearing a BlackBerry trademark are manufactured or controlled by BlackBerry and are thus of consistently high quality.

What's «unseen» are the increased costs that result from tariffs, borne by 300 million - plus consumers.

Further, the cost of overdraft programs is borne disproportionately by a small share of financially vulnerable consumers.

«Consumer report» means any written, oral, or other communication of any information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living which (i) is furnished or (ii) is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibilConsumer report» means any written, oral, or other communication of any information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living which (i) is furnished or (ii) is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibilconsumer reporting agency bearing on a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living which (i) is furnished or (ii) is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibilconsumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living which (i) is furnished or (ii) is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibilconsumer's eligibility for:

This month's issue of Money Advisor by Consumer Reports echoes the research saying that «you'll generally do better investing all at once rather than in increments» but goes on to say that «averaging shines in times of crisis» and gives four examples: oil crisis (1973), Black Monday crash (1987), Sept 11, 2001 and Bear market of 2002.

People are frustrated by the lack of a workable appeals process over disputed items and the fact that consumers — not creditors — bear the burden to prove the accuracy of credit information.So it's no surprise that a major legislative proposal has surfaced on Capitol Hill that seeks to disrupt much of the American system of gathering, reporting and using credit information, including potentially significant changes in the credit scores that lenders use to evaluate most home mortgage applications.

... any written, oral, or other communication of any information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics or mode of living....

(b) With respect to the deferral of one or more wholly unpaid scheduled payments in a consumer credit transaction, in which the finance charge was determined by the precomputed method, the creditor may collect, by agreement with the debtor either before or after default, an additional charge for each full month that any wholly unpaid scheduled payments are outstanding after the due date of each scheduled payment equal to that proportion of the finance charge which the amount of the deferred monthly scheduled payment bears to the sum of all monthly balances originally scheduled.

For example, in one program, consumers can borrow up to $ 500, which is placed in an interest bearing account or CD, so they can establish creditworthiness by making consistent and timely repayments.

They hide the ugly truth from the public by selling their puppies to unsuspecting consumers through pet stores, websites and classified ads, refusing to reveal where or how the puppy was born and raised.

Ultimately, the consumer bears responsibility for ensuring they do not support these illegal operations by purchasing companion animals in this fashion.»

After several tests with consumers, we quickly realized that our litter could go by no other name, and World's Best Cat Litter ™ was born!

The new bill states, «often, a consumer has not seen the conditions in which the cat or dog was born and raised, and the health and behavioral issues caused by these conditions may not present themselves until sometime after the purchase of the cat or dog; and that these health and behavioral issues can impose exorbitant financial and emotional costs on the consumer purchasing the cat or dog.»

By recapturing this image, Prince exposes how the American cowboy died and the American consumer was born.

Inspired by a period working at the Time / Life publishing company where he bore witness to the powerful impact of mass media images in shaping consumer wishes, Prince had first gained recognition in the early 1970s as an artist for his alteration of advertisements from the media, representing them in new, slightly changed compositions.

Cudlin writes:»... Guston's cartoonish late paintings bear little resemblance to, say, the slick reproductions of consumer - culture detritus offered by Pop artists like Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein.

That is to say, consumer objects bear no trace of how they have been made or by whom.

In response to the commercialisation of Eastern spirituality in the form of Western «Wellness» and «New Age» business models, the Peckham curatorial team engage work by Timur Si - Qin, Neil Beloufa, Julie Born Schwartz, Lewis Teague Wright, Tyra Tingleff and Christopher Kulendran Thomas in relation to this branded space referencing «the betterment of the consumer».

«The PUCO... is deeply concerned about the additional costs that will be borne by Ohio's consumers and businesses as a result of the DOE's proposed rule,» said its filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Those electric consumers without rooftop solar systems are paying for transmission and distribution costs that should also be borne by solar rooftop owners.

That cost has to be borne by industry as well as draining the wealth out of consumers.

While no doubt borne out of a well - intentioned desire to protect consumers (remembering the recent impacts of mortgage - backed securities on financial markets), the Senators» approach is akin to responding to a tragic airplane crash by concluding that the best way to protect consumers from air disasters in the future is simply to ban flying.

The redesign of their earlier not so fancy floor cleaner follows typical Method standards by taking a typical boring bottle of cleaning solution and transforming it into something a consumer may actually leave out in the open when they aren't using it.

Many countries have now liberalized the electricity market where these risks, and the risk of cheaper competitors emerging before capital costs are recovered, are borne by plant suppliers and operators rather than consumers, which leads to a significantly different evaluation of the economics of new nuclear power plants.

* The «Losers» include: * Electricity consumers who are forced to bear higher costs of electricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electricity use.

These additional costs will eventually be borne by taxpayers or consumers.

However, I found the revenue - neutral Carbon Fee & Dividend solution by Citizens» Climate Lobby to be far superior to just a carbon tax because it protects consumers like us who will bear the brunt of these rising carbon costs, especially low - income households, who pay a higher percentage of their income on energy.

«Green - e claims to be the leading voluntary certification program for green power products in the U.S. Similar in concept to the «organic» label set forth by the USDA, products bearing the Green - e logo and «Made With Renewable Energy» label immediately informs consumers that the product was manufactured using an environmentally friendly source of energy.