Affluence and interest were (and are) prerequisites for the maintenance of the radio, television, cinema, and recording industries, institutions that are most highly developed in wealthy, industrial nations.
This subject is of particular interest because affluence may be associated with various hypothesised risk factors for childhood leukaemia, including population mixing and delayed exposure to infection (McNally and Eden, 2004).
They longed for connection in their pursuit of suburban affluence.
Morris, however, is not about to relinquish the opportunity to speak out against the hypocrisy of affluence and organized religion in a forum that has caught the interest of C-Span.
Growing personal affluence and in some cases outright fortunes, are spawning Chinese cultural and social interests abroad that are likely to be enduring.
Vivie Warren, a well-educated young woman, discovers that her mother attained her present status and affluence by rising from poverty through prostitution and that she now has financial interests in several brothels throughout Europe.
And many are offering help.The capital city of Ulaanbaatar these days is aswarm with various multinational groups eagerly interested in leading Mongolia out of the Dark Ages and into affluence and modernity by developing its considerable natural resources, as well as the last wilderness areas left in Asia.Gleaming new hotels rise beside gray Soviet-era housing projects.
It is thus of interest to note the general lack of differential effects by both gender and family affluence, although we did find suggestions of slightly stronger associations between the Consumer Involvement subscales, particularly 'dissatisfaction', and both smoking and drinking among females.
All these trends -- growing affluence, rising numbers of restaurants, ethnic diversity -- have surfed right along with a tidal wave of interest in food.
Robert Frank's photographs in "The Americans," taken between 1955 and 1956 and published in Paris in 1958 and in the United States a year later, with an introduction by Kerouac, held the same interest: they are pictures of a world not yet made plump and uniform by postwar affluence and consumerism.
