Article: eCommerce Barriers Will Cost Consumers $32 Billion In 2002 and $200 Billion Over Next 5 Years; Report Finds that Anticompetitive Efforts by Middlemen Could Threaten the Future of eCommerce.

Article: DURBIN, COLLEAGUES SET SIGHTS ON DRUG COMPANY WINDFALL; PROVISION WOULD COST CONSUMERS, TAXPAYERS BILLIONS
Capitol Hill Press Releases;  October 21, 1997 ;     246 words ......COLLEAGUES SET SIGHTS ON DRUG COMPANY WINDFALL, PROVISION WOULD COST CONSUMERS TAXPAYERS BILLIONS *****NEWS CONFERENCE AT P.M. TODAY...kill a proposal being floated on Capitol Hill that could cost consumers and taxpayers billions of dollars. Durbin said the proposal...

Article: VIC: Freebies cost consumers in the end
AAP General News (Australia);  June 20, 2006 ;     132 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 06-20-2006 VIC: Freebies cost consumers in the end Consumers can't resist a freebie when they see one .. but it could end up costing them in the long run. Research shows...

Article: Fed: Lifting MRET would cost consumers too much: Kemp
AAP General News (Australia);  June 15, 2004 ;     307 words ......General News (Australia) 06-15-2004 Fed: Lifting MRET would cost consumers too much: Kemp CANBERRA, June 15 AAP - The federal government...Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) because it would cost consumers too much. A review headed by former coalition senator Grant...

Article: Vic: Generator failure may cost consumers
AAP General News (Australia);  June 15, 2000 ;     191 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 06-15-2000 Vic: Generator failure may cost consumers Victorian Premier Steve Bracks says an electricity generator's failure in the La Trobe Valley could bump up power bills for the...

Article: Import curbs cost consumers $23B, Andres charges. (William Andres)
WWD;  March 11, 1985 ;     157 words ......William Andres, chairman of the excutive committee of Dayton Hudson Corp., claimed that textile-apparel quotas in 1984 cost consumers a conservative 4 billion, all of it going to foreign manufacturers and foreign governments. And Andres said consumers had...

Article: Fed: lifting MRET would cost consumers too much - Kemp
AAP General News (Australia);  June 15, 2004 ;     149 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 06-15-2004 Fed: lifting MRET would cost consumers too much - Kemp The federal government has refused to increase its national target for the use of clean and green energy. Environment...

Article: S KOREAN TELECOM CARTEL COST CONSUMERS US$908 MLN IN DAMAGES: FTC.
AsiaPulse News;  September 15, 2005 ;     479 words ......fixed-line telecom service providers is estimated to have cost consumers more than 932 billion won (US$908 million) in damages, the...Onse Telecom Co. for their international lines may have cost consumers 76 billion won, while the bill for long distance domestic...

Article: Patent extension could cost consumers billions of dollars
Chicago Defender;  June 29, 2000 ;     426 words ...Patent extension could cost consumers billions of dollars Pointing to the rising cost of prescription...extension for Schering-Plough's Claritin allergy medicine could cost consumers up to $7 billion over its three-year extension, Durbin said...

Article: RAIL MERGER COULD COST CONSUMERS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: `IT MAY NOT BE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST'.(Business)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 13, 1996 ;     202 words ......Mountain News Staff Writer The Justice Department said Friday that the proposed Union Pacific-Southern Pacific rail merger may cost consumers $800 million. That's how much the department estimates prices would rise if only two railroads were left in the West, with...

Article: Lending Fees Cost Consumers Money
AP Online;  January 8, 2002 ;     581 words ...00-00-0000 Title: Lending Fees Cost Consumers Money [image omitted] WASHINGTON (AP) _ Beatrice Hiers...lenders, often not disclosed to borrowers, can be abusive and cost consumers thousands of dollars, Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., chairman...

Article: Vic: Freebies cost consumers in the end
AAP General News (Australia);  June 20, 2006 ;     296 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 06-20-2006 Vic: Freebies cost consumers in the end MELBOURNE, June 20 AAP - Consumers can't resist a freebie when they see one - but it could end up costing them in the...

Article: Ratepayer's advocate will now focus on RGGI ; Stephen Ward's mission is to help build a cap-and-trade system that doesn't cost consumers.
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  January 29, 2007 ;     326 words ......Ratepayer's advocate will now focus on RGGI ; Stephen Ward's mission is to help build a cap-and-trade system that doesn't cost consumers. Edition: FINAL Section: Editorial The job of the Maine public advocate is to represent the interests of utility consumers...

Article: Farmers attack corporate greed of stores that cost consumers pounds 270m.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  December 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The scandal is thought to have cost consumers about pounds 270m. The UK's biggest supermarket Tesco, which...corporate greed by the supermarkets and dairies which has cost consumers and farmers hundreds of millions of pounds, he said. While...

Article: Grass-Roots Campaign Asks Congressman Wexler (D-FL) to Stop Prescription Drug Bill That Will Cost Consumers Over $4 Billion.
PR Newswire;  June 10, 1999 ;     370 words ......for three years beyond the period allowed by law. The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen estimates that the bill will cost consumers over $4 billion in unnecessary health care expenses. Claritin alone had 1998 sales of $2.3 billion, up 31 percent over 1997...