An advanced country may be able to decouple economic growth and increasing volumes of material goods consumed.
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She said children understood the influence of commercialisation and "recognised they were under pressure to own material goods".
Today, that statement sounds like a Gordon Gecko inspired desire for material goods.
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The ones that failed, of which there were far too many, simply gave out medicine, material goods or advice.
With brigands able to grab anything in sight, there's no incentive to produce material goods or to build a future.
They will consume 38 times more material goods from food to shelter than their grandparents before them, Silverstein estimated.
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Iconoclasm is in, and most people worship only material goods these days.
Over the past decade, the strongest regional economies (as measured by GDP, job and wage growth) have overwhelmingly been those that produces material goods.
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Most Koreans lived by subsistence level agriculture enjoying meager material goods.
He gives every sign of knowing that if Cuban communism is to survive its founders it will have to supply people with a few more material goods.
When politics becomes a machine for generating and rewarding wealth for a tiny elite, neither our pride nor our more primal appetite for material goods are offended most.
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Worse still, working harder in order to be able to afford more material goods could even end up making people unhappier if they do not have enough spare time.
The result of this, suggests Lord Layard, is that developed societies may tend to work too hard in order to consume more material goods, and so consume too little leisure.
Celebrities, Einhorn says, have led the way in this regard, as many are paid to tweet about products or recieve material goods and gifts in return for seemingly innocuous endorsements.
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It evolves the traditional model of financial and material goods donations, to one in which corporations leverage a range of corporate assets including employee skills, business acumen and partner networks, to drive social change.
Social comparisons based on material goods that are commonplace in affluent societies were non-existent in poorer countries: How could the poor compare their meager possessions and material situations with their peers who also have so little?
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Unlike material goods, information is not scarce.
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But it, like many other chemical companies, feel the pain more acutely because petroleum is used as a raw material and to transport their goods.
Reverse logistics means controlling the flow of material, inventory and finished goods from point of consumption to point of origin, for the purpose of recapturing value or proper disposal.
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The trick, he says, is to harness material efficiency so people can enjoy goods that are equivalent or almost equivalent.
Because while a stronger yuan increases the dollar price of Chinese goods, it also lowers the yuan price of foreign raw material, allowing Chinese manufacturers to keep a lid on the price of their finished goods.
Like many chemical companies, Huntsman suffered from rapidly escalating petroleum costs, which is used as a raw material, to power its processes and transport its goods.
The origin of the goods is determined by measuring the levels of strontium isotopes in the material.
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Regarding nuclear and missile development the sanctions expand the list of material banned for trade to DPRK, including high tech, dual-use goods which might aid missile industries.
Uncommon Goods includes in its online catalog a lot of products made from recycled material.
The possible presence of additional Web-filtering machines, despite the earlier investigation, underscores problems with the enforcement of embargoes: Once a company sells material to an exporter legally, it isn't obliged to track where the goods end up.
The government even wants to ban some raw-material exports, hoping to dragoon mining companies into building smelters and exporting higher-value goods.
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