Mr. Madoff, for instance, had a propensity for buying in bulk (he would catalog the same sweater in every color and pattern available), avoiding wrinkles (even his underwear was pressed and folded just so) and monogramming (Mr. Madoff's initials graced everything from T-shirts to drinking glasses to a pair of black velveteen slippers, size 81/2).
Ticket sales have increased 40% so far in 2016 for Fandango, propelled by costumers' increasing propensity for buying things online through their smartphones.
However a separate company was formed the following year to establish the club under the chairmanship of Sydney Bourne, chosen due to his propensity in buying tickets to the Cup Final.
"Dunie Ryan, who was the head of the West End Gang, didn't want to have anything to do with Rory, he thought he was crazy and that he would just bring heat on him," D'Arcy O'Connor says, citing his wild MO and propensity for buying heavy weaponry with money from bank jobs.
And all of them aid Roethlisberger's propensity for the deep pass, buying a few extra moments for receivers to sprint downfield, and a few extra inches of space in which to catch the ball.
That is a reference to the propensity to buy higher-priced distilled spirits like single-malt Scotches and super-premium vodkas.
The quality of that audience, in turn, was based on its location, income, education level and propensity to buy the product the advertiser sold.
The authors (Luigi Guiso and Luigi Zingales, of the University of Chicago, and Paola Sapienza, of Northwestern University) find that levels of trust, variously defined, are correlated with investors' propensity to buy shares.
He said efforts like the "never say never" campaign were meant to "create shared interest" among football fans, who "have a larger propensity to buy trucks" than other consumers, by "showing we value what they value".
