In light of the toughening regulatory framework for product safety (pro-consumer changes to the general product safety laws are further along), they have asked the commission to add a defense based on regulatory compliance.
E-cigarettes are currently classed as a general consumer product and regulated by trading standards.
When inflation is high, people find it hard to tell if a rise in the price of a product reflects general inflation or an increase in demand for that product.
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"This finger-friendly device strengthens TiVo's product offerings, giving consumers the best tools to find what they want more quickly, " said Jim Denney, vice president and general manager of product marketing for TiVo.
"As families prepare to send their kids off to school this fall, they need a laptop with reliability and performance, " said Sam Burd, vice president and general manager of product development for Dell.
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"We're bringing TiVo's innovative user interface from the TV directly to your fingertips, taking your TV viewing experience to a whole new level, " said Jim Denney, vice president and general manager of product marketing for TiVo.
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"We are committed to bring Skype Video Calling to as many platforms as possible and are delighted to deliver on this with our new updated Skype for Android app, " said Neil Stevens, Skype's vice president and general manager for product and marketing.
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For these lesser-known brands, consumers forget their negative perceptions more quickly than their general awareness of the product.
Under the Lanham Act, a company can sue over claims that name them directly or that merely point to their product in general, as is the case here.
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The right is generally happy to devolve decisions about education or health care to the states, notes Charles Fried, a professor of law at Harvard and former solicitor-general, but not product-liability rules and other forms of business regulation.
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Plaintiff lawyers have tried to put the focus solely on the behavior of the manufacturers, in order to avoid the messy question of whether consumers believed advertising that was directly contradicted by the warning on each pack of cigarettes from the U.S. Surgeon General warning them the product could kill them.
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"Most of the industry is located in California so I actually need to travel to California, " says Mr. Fernandes, who is the owner and general manager of Bio2, a product-development company based in Brazil.
Intel is going to make its own graphics product out of its general-purpose processors, and amd will seek to fold sophisticated graphics capabilities into its CPUs, stealing business that would otherwise have gone Huang's way.
At an event here, Jeff Clarke, senior vice president and general manager of the Dell business product group, said the new models represent a million man-hours of research, more than 3, 200 prototype test units and feedback from more than 4, 000 customers.
"We're going to wake them up when we launch this, " says Rich Bergman, general manager of AMD's graphics product group.
Shuji Minami -- the product business group's general manager -- is suggesting that increased production by alternative manufacturers will open up the currently tight supply line.
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Chung likes Dollar General, which is adding groceries to its product mix.
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Bush touched a nerve earlier this year when he said that General Motors and Ford should develop "a product that's relevant" rather than look to Washington for help with their heavy pension obligations.
The industry support "forms a bridge between the public and private sectors and will assist Interpol and each of its 190 member countries to more effectively tackle the problem of medical product counterfeiting, " Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said in a statement.
"As one of the most widely used business PCs in the world, Dell Latitude brand laptops need to support a broad range of technology so our customers can connect virtually anywhere and at any time, and Qualcomm's Gobi platform helps us achieve this, " said Kirk Schell, executive director and general manager of Dell's Business Client Product Group.
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Known as the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, it limited product liability to 18 years.
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For AM General, the win was crucial because its main product is the Humvee that will eventually be eclipsed by the new vehicle.
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The problem with the recalled toys was detected by an internal probe and reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, David Allmark, general manager of Fisher-Price, told The Associated Press Wednesday.
Then, with Mr. Zehetbauer acting as general contractor and Mr. Wardlaw in charge of product research, the two built the houses and interior cabinetry themselves, putting in what they estimate was thousands of hours.
While these savings are expected to come largely from organizational streamlining, the company will also target areas such as real estate, information technology, product and service procurement costs, overall general and administrative expenses, and a significant reduction of suppliers in order to further lower costs and improve quality.
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General Mills began a similar highly profitable transition in its product portfolio in 2005.
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In general, the molecular designs of these plastics improve a product's flame resistance or its structural integrity under heat.
Better language skills, she reckons, are a product less of market demand than of a general enthusiasm for China.
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In general, the sterilization process for producing batches of injectable product was not validated ( here is the inspection report).
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Big east-coast firms such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General were self-contained empires that focused on one product, mini-computers.
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