Sentences with phrase «american affluence»

The Chicago Tribune reports that the American Affluence Research Center took a poll among the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans and found that among the 11 million households representing about half of all consumer income in this country, plans to reduce spending will mean a softness in the sale of new motor vehicles in the next 12 months.

These shifts were spurred by a new American affluence, by the Pill, by the flood of women into the work force, by the destabilization of traditional values during the war in Vietnam, and by a new societal emphasis on self - fulfillment.

Grey Matter, «Auditing American Affluence: Are We Really Getting Richer?»

American affluence is literally a «flowing in.»

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A new study suggests many Americans reach the dream of affluence.

I dream of a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direct action that will dare to pray and picket, evangelize and blockade until Americans can no longer ignore the way our affluence is built on poverty and starvation abroad.

Second, the right to collective bargaining has been enshrined in law, and the results of these contract negotiations worked in combination with the supremacy and prosperity of American heavy industry in the mid-twentieth century to produce a previously undreamt of affluence for skilled laborers.

Three times in national elections we voted for a simulacrum of the «American Century,» for a candidate who projected a sense of American superiority in the world and ethically untroubled affluence at home, willingly suspending disbelief in the possibility of such a restoration.

But in a world of tightening competition, organizing American society around an ever more intense competition for affluence — more Hobbesian than Lockean — is not the only institutional possibility.

Some were genuinely moved that an American would abandon his affluence to be with them.

But affluence, he contentiously insists to those raised on the American Dream, is no guarantee of happiness or fulfilment.

No just as the Slave owners of our first Civil War, who needed African slaves on their Plantations, to make them economically viable for the Southern Aristocracy to maintain their affluence, the Anti Gov forces of today seek a totally deregulated American economy.

Thomas Stanley and William Danko, in their fascinating behavioral finance book, The Millionaire Next Door, surprised many of us with their research suggesting that visible affluence may actually be a sign of lesser net worth, with the average American millionaire exhibiting surprisingly few outward displays of wealth.

Older Americans have made dramatic gains in their level of affluence relative to younger generations, says a new study by the Pew Research Center.

Subprime business nets big bucks American Express is linked with affluence, but credit cards don't need well - heeled customers to make a good buck, their financial reports show.

Often illuminated by flashes of searchlights, Ruscha's paintings of common objects and urban night scenes evoke atmospheres culled from Hollywood movies, casting a dark shadow on American myths of affluence and success.

He was the most politically conscious and satirical of the American artists, a splenetic and grotesque scenarist whose tableaux revile the American dream, mocking postwar affluence with dark echoes of the Depression and an atmosphere of fetid decay.

2013 Affluence of the working class from differentiation to collectivism, Pavilion, Bucharest, Romania Blues for Smoke, The Wexner Center of Arts, Columbus, OH Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Arguing that preservation requires something «qualitatively different from limiting our contamination of nature,» Nordhaus and Shellenberger contend that, as Americans, we must collectively sacrifice our standard of living to reverse the inevitable, a seemingly impossible but necessary task in a nation plagued by affluence envy and credit card debt.

Yet just as the American diet has been shown to be a dangerous export — accompanied by spreading obesity, heart disease, and other so - called diseases of affluence — ramping up American - style factory meat production is not without risk.