Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1976: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, Volumes 7-8

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Page 4 - It rests on the premise that the unrestrained interaction of competitive forces will yield the best allocation of our economic resources, the lowest prices, the highest quality and the greatest material progress, while at the same time providing an environment conducive to the preservation of our democratic, political and social institutions.
Page 426 - NARB works closely with the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
Page 104 - ... such as credit bureaus exercise their responsibilities in providing information to credit grantors, insurers, employers and others in a manner that is fair and equitable to the consumer, with regard to confidentiality, accuracy, and the proper use of such information. Users of such information must inform the consumer when adverse action (such as denial of credit, insurance or employment) is taken on the basis of such reports, and the user must identify the company which is the source of the...
Page 34 - The Congress finds that there is a need to insure that the various financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extensions of credit exercise their responsibility to make credit available with fairness, impartiality, and without discrimination on the basis of sex or marital status. Economic stabilization would be enhanced and competition among the various financial institutions and other...
Page 139 - Columbia to stay the injunction until he filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court On the...
Page 105 - Commission's jurisdiction to cover activities "affecting commerce" as well as "in commerce"; to provide for certain procedures when the Commission prescribes substantive rules for unfair or deceptive acts or practices; to increase the Commission's authority to represent itself In civil court actions and before the Supreme Court under certain conditions; to authorize the Commission to commence a civil action to recover civil penalties for knowing violations of the FTC Act; and to authorize tne FTC...
Page 349 - For activities such as construction, transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services, and similar physically dispersed operations, establishments are represented by those relatively permanent main or branch offices, terminals, stations, etc., which are either (1) directly responsible for supervising such activities, or (2) the base from which personnel operate to carry out these activities. Hence, the individual sites, projects, fields, networks, lines or systems of such dispersed...
Page 354 - Basic and applied research in the sciences and engineering and the design and development of prototypes and processes. This definition excludes quality control, routine product testing, market research, sales promotion, sales service, research in the social sciences or psychology, and other nontechnological activities or technical services.
Page 410 - And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall prevent persons engaged in selling goods, wares, or merchandise in commerce from selecting their own customers in bonafide transactions and not in restraint of trade.
Page 277 - To promote free and fair competition in interstate commerce in the interest of the public through prevention of price-fixing agreements, boycotts, combinations in restraint of trade, other unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive practices.

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