Word: consumptionism
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But the vaccine is far from ready for public consumption, and researchers think that even if future trials confirm its utility, it may never reach the market. That's due in part to legal hurdles - drugmakers fear that patients who take an addiction drug, then later overdose or develop another...
A recent study found that mortality rates don't increase during a recession. But your research of earnings and death records in Pennsylvania found that when high-seniority males, especially those around age 40, are laid off, their mortality rate initially jumps 50% to 100% and that while the risk...
The half-decade before the financial crisis was a go-go time for the global economy. Consumption reached unprecedented heights; so did oil prices and shipping rates. And that frantic buying and selling was a boon for manufacturing. As U.S. consumers flexed their credit cards for flat-panel TVs and...
In the era of globalized glut that presaged the crash, we allowed freedom to be recast as a vehicle to deliver consumption. But it is much more than that, and if we forget it we will all be the losers.
In other words, regardless of other environmental and lifestyle factors, like family-income level, parenting style or children's level of education, the data suggested it was only the frequency of confectionery consumption in childhood that strongly predicted adult violence. "The key message is that this study really raises more...