It was suggested that in populations with low per capita income cigarette smoking marked relative affluence, which itself protected against renal disease.
He mourns these things: that China's craft knowledge has yielded to the production of the cheap and fake; that a society once dedicated to equality is now re-feudalizing, in slick, Audi-and-penthouse ways; that a country whose native name means "Middle Kingdom" has allowed itself, in pursuit of affluence, to be remade as a glass-and-steel mimic of somebody else's country.
Indeed, she seems to think that being able to afford a hotel room is in itself a sign of criminal affluence.
Both Janet and Mary feels colossally oppressed in the stifling patriarchal autocracy that the family -- isolated by its affluence in a small town that is itself isolated on the moors -- has become.
And this time, we were no longer the glamorous Iranians so generous with their petrodollars, courted by shop assistants, hoteliers and maitre d's, but now we came from a country that had, in full view of the world, rejected what looked like affluence and modernity in order to shroud itself in black, burn the American flag and career backwards in time.
With increasing population growth, rapid urbanization, rising levels of affluence, and resource scarcity, waste-to-energy (WTE) is reestablishing itself as an attractive technology option to promote low carbon growth among other renewable energy technologies.
CALIFORNIA has always prided itself on getting to the future first on pioneering the suburban affluence of the 1950s, the tax-cutting revolution of the 1970s and the high-tech boom of the 1990s.
The polo shirt has caused a sensation in the Chinese fashion world as a sign of affluence and influence, but for those eager to wield true power, playing the horseback sport itself is a badge of having arrived.
