Word: consumerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What daughters want is pretty packaging, a funky color--and the feeling that the product was created just for them. The Manhattan-based Tony & Tina hawks a $10 nail polish in a bottle that looks like a rocket. Philosophy, founded by skin-care clinician Cristina Carlino, prefers to look inward...
"There's no way the consumer can know if any of these beverages are really doing all that they claim to do," said Dr. Gabe Mirkin, associate professor at Georgetown University Medical School, to Time. For example, it takes six bottles of SoBe Wisdom to reach the amount shown in...
Although the Dow later backed off the record high, the euphoria may be a product of a paradigm shift in the shaping of economic indicators. After all, it seems counterintuitive that wage inflation wouldn't increase with the ever-expanding job market. "But this may show some things about the...
Agricultural subsidies Europe and Japan continue to heavily subsidize their farmers, making those markets less competitive for food exporting countries such as the U.S., Canada, Australia and Brazil. Although they'll find it difficult to maintain those subsidies in the face of WTO opposition, European and Japanese leaders are under...
If the City Council route fails, EFZ suggests that tenants use existing tenant and consumer laws to challenge landlords for not providing adequate housing.