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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... results of the examination , which is embodied in the prescription , belongs to him , and he is clearly entitled to get it ? Ms. SMITH . We think it is necessary that he get it , so he can shop around , but it has not been decided as a ...
... results of the examination , which is embodied in the prescription , belongs to him , and he is clearly entitled to get it ? Ms. SMITH . We think it is necessary that he get it , so he can shop around , but it has not been decided as a ...
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... result in false , deceptive , and unfair business practices . As I described before , we think an advertising ban has a much greater effect on the consumer , in that he is denied information , and any unfair and deceptive advertising ...
... result in false , deceptive , and unfair business practices . As I described before , we think an advertising ban has a much greater effect on the consumer , in that he is denied information , and any unfair and deceptive advertising ...
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... resulting from the advertising would be so great as to overcome any social and economic injury ensuing from the advertising ban ... In addressing the question of whether removal of advertising bans would result in deterioration in the ...
... resulting from the advertising would be so great as to overcome any social and economic injury ensuing from the advertising ban ... In addressing the question of whether removal of advertising bans would result in deterioration in the ...
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... result only in a visual impair- ment while the eyeglasses or corrective lenses were being worn . Neither im- proper lenses nor poor quality frames would result in a substantial health hazard to the person wearing them . I would point ...
... result only in a visual impair- ment while the eyeglasses or corrective lenses were being worn . Neither im- proper lenses nor poor quality frames would result in a substantial health hazard to the person wearing them . I would point ...
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... result . Mr. GORDON . When you assert that eye care in the United States is approximately half the optimal rate ... results show that in restrictive States persons obtain eye care less frequently , which is not surprising . What is to be ...
... result . Mr. GORDON . When you assert that eye care in the United States is approximately half the optimal rate ... results show that in restrictive States persons obtain eye care less frequently , which is not surprising . What is to be ...
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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...