The urge of the great department stores was to hide acquisition as sociability, to disguise acquisitiveness as membership, so that one entered them not as one entered a store — with one eye on the beseeching salesgirl, one hand on the knob of the door, just looking — but as one entered a library or a club: striding in with pleasure.
Ensuring that the market functions well is the best way to insulate consumers against the vagaries of a single supplier.Open the booksThe main reason to worry about sovereign-wealth funds' acquisitiveness is a narrowly financial one.
There is no room for error, remarks Mr Rosa.The company is also unusual by Italian standards for its acquisitiveness overseas.
Their motive, therefore, was not mere acquisitiveness.
Patanjali's practice deleted the element of reasoning from Upanishadic Yoga while adding three preparatory components: self-restraint (from violence, falsehood, theft, incontinence, and acquisitiveness), commitment (to purity, contentment, austerity, self-study, and devotion to the Lord), and bodily postures.
He was both fascinated and appalled by the French social system of his time, in which the bourgeois values of material acquisitiveness and gain were steadily replacing what he viewed as the more stable moral values of the old-time aristocracy.
Mazarin's acquisitiveness was such that even exile by the Fronde did not keep him from procuring several prize paintings from Charles I's collection after the monarch's execution.
In probably his most provocative and influential book, The Acquisitive Society (1920), he held that the acquisitiveness of capitalist society was a morally wrong motivating principle.
Tom Edden as Fagin was simply outstanding as the horrible old corrupter of youth whose self-serving survival instincts and magpie acquisitiveness overwhelm any natural redeeming instincts he may have had lurking within.
"We're taught that acquisitiveness is best, and that if we keep on acquiring things, we'll be happy," he reflects.
The real goal, he says, is to determine what "story" a client wishes to tell about his product (it's faster, it's more powerful, it's easier to use) and then find a word that evokes it, without being predictable or even necessarily logical; straightforward labels do not worm their way into the consumer's subconscious, touching off the insecurity and acquisitiveness that provoke the impulse to buy.
