... you to pay for it before they deliver. For free information about avoiding advance-free loan scams, write: Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC 20580 or call the National Fraud Information Center, (800)876-7060.

... vary in how they disclose such freebies, if they do so at all. The practice has grown to the degree that the Federal Trade Commission is paying attention. New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications ...

... would require GM and Chrysler to take more responsibility for product liability cases. Advocacy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to warn buyers of used Chryslers that they would not be able to sue in cases involving cars made before the company ...

... unevenly prepared the U.S. government is to block such multipronged assaults. While Treasury Department and Federal Trade Commission Web sites were shut down by the software attack, which lasted for days over the holiday weekend, others such ...

... Idaho senator during graduate school. After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission. Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II. Ironically, while providing ...

... to buy Alpharma Inc. provided it sells some assets related to Alpharma's painkiller Kadian. King said the Federal Trade Commission has ended a required waiting period for King's buyout of Alpharma, and is provisionally accepting a consent ...

... comment on the filing. - Advertisement - The acquisition cleared its final regulatory hurdle last month with Federal Trade Commission approval. Earlier, the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department gave their OK to the transaction ...

... said during a news conference at his office Wednesday. The calls are occurring elsewhere in the country and the Federal Trade Commission has begun its own investigation, McDaniel said. He also said the companies displayed false numbers on recipients ...

... restraining order against Transcontinental Warranty Inc. on Thursday and one against Voice Touch Inc. on Friday. The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against the companies in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Thursday. Chairman Jon Leibowitz says ...

... a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. In 1915, the Federal Trade Commission began operations. In 1926, rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid ...