Restrictive and Anticompetitive Practices in the Eyeglass Industry: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Monopoly and Anticompetitive Activities of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ... |
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... addition to the great variability of prices among retail outlets there is a great disparity between wholesale and retail prices - especially with respect to frames . For example , an " Ambassador " frame which wholesales at $ 2.15 ...
... addition to the great variability of prices among retail outlets there is a great disparity between wholesale and retail prices - especially with respect to frames . For example , an " Ambassador " frame which wholesales at $ 2.15 ...
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... addition to that , there are private codes of ethics , which restrict advertising of prices . Senator NELSON . When did these laws go on the State statutes ? MS . SMITH . They started accumulating about the turn of the cen- tury , and ...
... addition to that , there are private codes of ethics , which restrict advertising of prices . Senator NELSON . When did these laws go on the State statutes ? MS . SMITH . They started accumulating about the turn of the cen- tury , and ...
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... addition to laws , as I understand it , there have been regulations adopted by boards of optometry in various States . What kind of members constitute these boards ? Are they generally optometrists , opticians , or ophthalmologists ? Ms ...
... addition to laws , as I understand it , there have been regulations adopted by boards of optometry in various States . What kind of members constitute these boards ? Are they generally optometrists , opticians , or ophthalmologists ? Ms ...
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... addition to the advertising bans , there are other restrictions on competition in the eyeglass industry . What we described as commercial restrictions , restrictions that go to whether an optometrist can work for an optician , whether ...
... addition to the advertising bans , there are other restrictions on competition in the eyeglass industry . What we described as commercial restrictions , restrictions that go to whether an optometrist can work for an optician , whether ...
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... addition to 2 years of general undergradute college study , and they are primarily concerned with visual defect problems . They can examine eyes and prescribe lenses to correct vision ; how- ever , they cannot treat any eye diseases ...
... addition to 2 years of general undergradute college study , and they are primarily concerned with visual defect problems . They can examine eyes and prescribe lenses to correct vision ; how- ever , they cannot treat any eye diseases ...
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advertising of ophthalmic agencies AHART American Optical American Optometric Association Asst Bausch & Lomb Benham BERKOWITZ bidder bifocal Board BRANCH SERVICE commercial committee competition consumer contact lenses contract contractor correct cost Dart Drug dispensing doctor drugs economic effect estimated eye examination eyeglass prescriptions eyewear factors Federal Trade Commission firms Frame Complete FTC staff GORDON groups hearings indicated individual laboratory laws lens licensing manufacturers MARKOE Maryland materials medicaid medicaid program obtaining eyeglasses ophthalmologists opticians Optometric Association optometrists optometry pair of glasses patient percent practice prescription price advertising problem procurement profession professional control purchase question refractive regulations regulatory retail Senator CULVER Senator NELSON single vision SMITH SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE specific standards statement STERNBURG supply Temples TILLYER tion trifocal Virginia visual Washington wholesale Whse
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Page 26 - But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.
Page 333 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Page 396 - Counsel for the American Association of Retired Persons and the National Retired Teachers Association.
Page 358 - ... use of any advertising statements of a character tending to deceive or mislead the public ; advertising professional superiority or the performance of professional services in a superior manner...
Page 381 - ... individual practitioners, but protection against those who would prey upon a public peculiarly susceptible to imposition through alluring promises of physical relief. And the community is concerned in providing safeguards not only against deception, but against practices which would tend to demoralize the profession by forcing its members into an unseemly rivalry which would enlarge the opportunities of the least scrupulous. What is generally called the 'ethics' of the profession is but the consensus...
Page 481 - ... purpose for which the Federal financial assistance is extended or for another purpose involving the provision of similar services or benefits. If any personal property is so provided, this assurance shall obligate the Applicant for the period during which it retains ownership or possession of the property.
Page 481 - The Applicant recognizes and agrees that such Federal financial assistance will be extended in reliance on the representations and agreements made in this assurance, and that the United States shall have the right to seek judicial enforcement of this assurance.
Page 481 - Assurance shall obligate the Applicant, or in the case of any transfer of such property, any transferee, for the period during which the real property or structure is used for a purpose for which the Federal financial assistance...
Page 266 - Advertising, however tasteless and excessive it sometimes may seem, is nonetheless dissemination of information as to who is producing and selling what product, for what reason, and at what price.
Page 341 - ... or dividing a fee with any person or persons; the obtaining of any fee or compensation by fraud or misrepresentation; employing...