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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... lenses , or both . Lenses are dis- tributed in three forms : ( 1 ) Those already preground to prescription specifications , ( 2 ) semifinished , uncut lens blanks , or ( 3 ) uncut blanks . In the case of lenses that are preground to ...
... lenses , or both . Lenses are dis- tributed in three forms : ( 1 ) Those already preground to prescription specifications , ( 2 ) semifinished , uncut lens blanks , or ( 3 ) uncut blanks . In the case of lenses that are preground to ...
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... lenses ; $ 700,000 on frames and $ 100,000 on cases . To illustrate what individual components cost , our review of ... lenses at an average cost of $ 1.81 per pair . We purchased 16,852 pairs of bifocal lenses which cost us an aver- age ...
... lenses ; $ 700,000 on frames and $ 100,000 on cases . To illustrate what individual components cost , our review of ... lenses at an average cost of $ 1.81 per pair . We purchased 16,852 pairs of bifocal lenses which cost us an aver- age ...
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... lenses , it is $ 2.56 . Those are the components that go together to make the glasses . Senator CULVER . All right . Dr. SMITH . Black plastic frames and plastic lenses , total cost is $ 5.50 . The supply cost is $ 3.25 . Metal frames ...
... lenses , it is $ 2.56 . Those are the components that go together to make the glasses . Senator CULVER . All right . Dr. SMITH . Black plastic frames and plastic lenses , total cost is $ 5.50 . The supply cost is $ 3.25 . Metal frames ...
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... lenses and with the $ 4.81 figure , Doctor , you mentioned supply costs of $ 2.56 . What were your labor costs there ... lenses is about 70 cents ; for multivision lenses , it is about a dollar ? Dr. SMITH . Yes , sir . Senator CULVER ...
... lenses and with the $ 4.81 figure , Doctor , you mentioned supply costs of $ 2.56 . What were your labor costs there ... lenses is about 70 cents ; for multivision lenses , it is about a dollar ? Dr. SMITH . Yes , sir . Senator CULVER ...
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... lenses or frames or lenses and frames , depend- ing on their needs . The supply schedule for this past year covers 183 line items of various corrective lenses and frames . The prices are determined by the factors required to fill the ...
... lenses or frames or lenses and frames , depend- ing on their needs . The supply schedule for this past year covers 183 line items of various corrective lenses and frames . The prices are determined by the factors required to fill the ...
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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...