Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Establish a procedure to handle consumer complaints. Under this rule, which takes effect July 4 (the first two become effective next Jan. 1), a manufacturer may choose to allow adjudication of disputes before the consumer business arbitration tribunals that have been created by many Better Business Bureaus or set up its own panel. But a company panel must be composed mainly of nonindustry representatives...
...Simple enough, until the lines of authority begin to move back and forth. At first, they are as clear and as easily traced as a mountain stream. Then they flow downward-through eight agencies, such as the Social Rehabilitation Service and the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Administration; 20 bureaus, such as the Office of Native American Programs and the National Heart and Lung Institute; and 40 programs, including Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act contracts and the Area Planning and Social Services Programs for the Elderly...
...Rating Bureaus. The prime targets of the Administration are property and liability insurers. These companies jointly organize rating bureaus, which in each state compile statistical information that enables insurers to determine average risks and costs. In many states the rating bureaus also add a profit markup and file a schedule of premium rates that state authorities generally accept. The Administration believes this practice makes rates higher than they would be if each company filed its own premium schedules, and it thinks the practice would be illegal under federal antitrust laws...
...antitrust immunity for anticompetitive rate-making activity by truckers. After a three-year phase-in period, carrier associations could in most cases no longer discuss rates, nor could industry rate bureaus file rates for members. Truckers could raise rates up to 15% a year without ICC intervention; they could cut rates without limit...
...files from Madrid went to Associate Editor Burton Pines, a seven-year veteran of TIME'S news bureaus, who wrote the story in New York. Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina spent most of her week poring over histories, TIME files and clippings going back to pre-Civil War days. Meanwhile, Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber prepared a profile of Heir Apparent Juan Carlos...