At the same time, a new consumer brief from the Society of Actuaries suggests how much wealth you should have for coverage to make sense.
On Thursday, the Nationwide Building society said that consumer confidence in the UK had fallen to "a low ebb" in December.
He was designed to stuff the discarded stuff of our consumer society into himself, squeeze it into dense cubes and stack the cubes into piles.
Companies struggle to keep up with demand for the essentials of a consumer society.
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Then we did it again in the 20th century with the convergence of communication and energy: Centralized electricity especially the telephone and then later radio and television became the communication vehicles to manage a more dispersed Second Industrial Revolution, organized around the oil-powered internal combustion engine, suburban construction and the creation of a mass consumer society.
Unneeded surgery "is an enormous scandal, white-coat crime as far as I am concerned, and it is just being ignored, " says Charles Inlander of the consumer group People's Medical Society.
Fashion has become the motor of our consumer-driven society.
They don't see how you can become the kind of country that produces the Googles and Facebooks of tomorrow and puts the consumer in the driving seat without also becoming a more open and democratic society.
The site, which was developed by the Business Travel Coalition, American Society of Travel Agents and Consumer Travel Alliance, invites travelers to share stories about surprise fees and sign a petition protesting them.
Almost all other letters, however, just bring up the names of companies and products, a kind of comment on a consumer society.
It is a paradox that, in spite of dramatic increases in life expectancy and improvements in health in the developed world over recent decades, as a society we are obsessively preoccupied with the specter of hazards lurking in our environment and consumer products.
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They spray the names of their gangs on walls and compose rap songs, about everything from Brazil's consumer society to Bob Marley.
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