1.   Renate Ku nast, the new food and agriculture minister, will also have responsibility for consumer affairs.

2.   Among those testifying Tuesday before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer affairs was Charles Prestwood, a recent retiree.

3.   At consumer affairs, he replaces Nancy Merrick, who was recently appointed a Superior Court judge.

4.   A vice president, for instance, may be quite interested to learn that his head of consumer affairs ignored your earlier grievance.

5.   After seven months, she left to become state director of consumer affairs.

6.   But he also wrote serious articles about consumer affairs.

7.   Consumers can also determine if a contractor is licensed by contacting the department of consumer affairs or the department of transportation in their state.

8.   Even Jules Polonetsky, the commissioner of consumer affairs for New York City, seemed baffled by it all.

9.   Finally, the federal prosecutor for consumer affairs ordered the company to clean up the advertisement and threatened to impose heavy fines.

10.   Hal Salfen, director of consumer affairs at the International Airline Passengers Association in Dallas, said agents often fail to check stock numbers at the counter.