Both companies benefited from Americans' desire to buy brand-name fashions at discounted prices.
He attacked business as a corrupt discipline, the sole purpose of which was to instill in people a desire to buy.
Men who read about the economy expressed less desire to buy any of the goods, but the women reminded about economics showed a greater desire for beauty-enhancing products.
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Falling gas prices, a rallying stock market and gains in the job market all fueled Americans' shopping habits even as cold weather tempered their desire to buy spring fashions.
While consumers do desire to buy, the companies to offer, the sort of physical goods deals that cannot be long term offerings for they cannot support that discounts demanded.
Yet what people desire to buy and what the companies desire to sell, are those offerings which have more than trivial marginal costs and which cannot, long term, afford the discounts.
The decision hasn't yet been formally taken by Mr Cable, because News Corporation hasn't yet made a formal notification of its desire to buy the 61% of BSkyB which it doesn't already control.
In contemplating the months ahead, I continue to predict a 15-20% correction in the U.S. equity market by the end of the summer and recommend no more than 15% exposure to equities, with no desire to buy and hold.
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After failing to find jeans in my size at three different locations of the same store, I gave up and purchased something else to satisfy my desire to just buy something.
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So there is a lot of work going on to evaluate whether the revealed desire of the Coventry Building Society or the Yorkshire Building Society to buy the Rock could be made to work.
An example of how moving this has become, Lawson said she received a note from a college student who wanted to dip into her savings to buy two dresses, but she convinced the student to save the funds and that her desire of generosity was enough.
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Freeing up more cash could buy the company time to see if there really is a desire for a number three smartphone company.
Driven by a desire to get bigger in the exploding options market, rival Nasdaq in 2007 struck deals to buy the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange and Stockholm-based OMX (this last deal is being done with Borse Dubai).
They start businesses and buy foreclosures and speed the velocity of money around the economy with a gush of pent-up desire to consume after years in the desert.
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It may be that, as capitalism makes us wealthier and we can buy what we desire, we can no longer blame an external situation for our misery and are forced to realise that our unhappiness has its source in our own minds.
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