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		<title><![CDATA[China, Consumerism, and the Red Pepsi Can]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[China, Consumerism, and the Red Pepsi CanRE: China, Consumerism, and the Red Pepsi Canbut what is their frame of reference?  If one never had steak the blandest of gruel might make one happy.  I know I wouldn't trade my way of life or freedoms to be a "happy"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:12:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cell Phone Carriers May Not Fence in Users for Long]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cell Phone Carriers May Not Fence in Users for LongRE: Cell Phone Carriers May Not Fence in Users for LongThe "termination fee" is really not a real "fee" that cell phone providers want to charge. It mainly is a deterrent to prevent you or us clients from "phone hopping" from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:53:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The President's news conference]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 28, 2008  The President. Good morning. Laura and I, as you know, recently came back from Africa, where we saw firsthand how the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is saving lives. I had a chance to go to the--speak to the Sullivan Foundation the other day about our...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Press Conference of the President]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Feb_28/ai_n24354800]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room  10:05 A.M. EST  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Laura and I, as you know, recently came back from Africa, where we saw firsthand how the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is saving lives. I had a chance to go to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consumer-Directed Health Plans]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=335212]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many industry observers believe that the U.S. health care system is in the midst of a transformational change centered on consumerism - the process of enabling and engaging consumers more directly in selection and purchase decisions about the health care services they use. Consumerism is regularly cited in the news...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Coming soon, but slowly]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumerism is the latest rage in health insurance.  Employers are pushing it in hopes of saving money and improving the health of workers. Insurers are marketing health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements to attract subscribers. And millions of people have jumped from managed-care policies into consumer-directed plans. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Take Care of Yourself: Employers Embrace Consumerism to Control Healthcare Costs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer-directed benefits, like managed care, are buzz words with broad, but important relevance for employers. Managed care was designed to put control where there was none. Today's trend toward consumerism attempts to inject something that's been missing from health benefits - a consumer who cares more about cost and quality....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Public Bank targets ISO certification for all branches, BUSINESS TIMES]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Times Malaysia    02-12-2003     PUBLIC Bank Bhd plans to have all its branches certified under the ISO  9001:2000 Quality Management System for customer service in loan delivery  by the end of the year.    Chairman Datuk Seri Dr Teh...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was not such a happy holiday for U.S. retailers. Though the final numbers haven't been released yet, analysts estimate retail sales may have grown just 1.5 percent over last year's season, the smallest increase in three decades. Still, that means shoppers managed to shell out more than $110 billion...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ethical and socially responsible advertising: can it be achieved?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6167/is_1-2_6/ai_n28975589]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  Prior to establishment of the FTC, consumers had no protection against the claims of advertisers. In 1938, the FTC declared "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" to be unlawful (Preston, 1975). Since that time, regulators, consumer groups, and advertisers have wrestled with the ethical issues involved in "fair"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Boston Globe Consumer Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200012/ai_n22496494]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dec. 24--READERS WEIGH IN ON SPIRIT OF CONSUMERISM: It's the  day before Christmas, a good time to take a gut check on the buy-buy-buy  mentality of the holidays.    Dec. 24--READERS WEIGH IN ON SPIRIT OF CONSUMERISM: It's the  day before Christmas, a good time...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Speech for Free.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few institutions demand more protection of intellectual property  than do corporate media. Eager to exploit the digital age but fearful of  the ease with which copyrighted material can be borrowed or stolen,  major media companies have successfully pressured Congress into  enhancing penalties for copyright violations. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When the going gets tough why does it become a psychobabble issue?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_19991219/ai_n13943764]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Anxious? Confused? Find yourself lurching between addictions, inexplicable rages and vague, unidentifiable lethargies? Don't worry. You're suffering from a simple case of chronic psycho-gibberish fatigue syndrome, and you're not alone. It's a condition which afflicts increasing numbers of us, as we fall prey to the twin forces of consumer capitalism...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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