Poorer Chileans, who make up more than half the population, have become used to material well-being unimaginable a decade ago.

ECONOMIST: Chile

Waiting for the job recovery might be a good time to take a broader measure of the material well-being of Americans.

ECONOMIST: The economy

That gaping shortfall in material well-being, the optimists reckon, will eventually drive North Korea to make good with the international community and seek foreign investment.

WSJ: North Korean Bonds? Now Could Be the Time

Anti-business rhetoric, which casts all success as undeserved, and which fails to recognize the improvements in material well-being that result from entrepreneurial success, just drive away talented people and guarantee our economic demise.

CNN: How to get economy growing fast

But how do you describe a woman who manages to provide some material well-being to her destitute family in Albania or Nigeria by entering another country illegally and working the streets as a prostitute or as a peddler of counterfeited goods?

NPR: Tracking the World's Black Market: 'Illicit'

But these disruptions do not negate the huge gains in material and political well-being that unification brought about.

ECONOMIST: But eastern and western Germany may never quite meet

It identifies the conditions that need to be in place before organized returns begin, such as the physical, material and legal safety and well-being of the returnees.

CNN: UNHCR focus on returning Iraqis

Anyone who asserts that business is not making a contribution to the well-being of society in material ways is foolish.

ECONOMIST: In the pink

It is fissionable material and small tactical warheads that are in danger of being stolen or sold, not the well-guarded strategic systems.

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