Luxury Fever offers an exit from the rat race, suggesting ways to curb the culture of excess and restore true value to our lives.
"It's common in many cultures to have this ritual of excess to restore balance to the universe.
Gluck is endlessly cited as the reformer who cleared opera of Baroque excess and extravagance, restoring its grandeur and dignity.
Bush's excesses have restored irony from its decadence in Letterman's salad days, when it came to mean adopting a winky superciliousness as your default reaction to everything, to its best purpose, which is as a coping strategy with a moral value.
Over the next half-century, in various stages, the excess paint was removed, restoring Rembrandt's original, signed portrait to its former glory.
Redistributing that excess water to restore or add irrigation to rain-fed crop areas could dampen some of the consequences of climate change upon irrigation and agriculture, Elliott said.
On Friday, the auto giant announced it plans to eliminate as many as 44,000 jobs through buyouts and other cuts by 2008 as part of an attempt to reduce excess capacity and restore profitability.
On Friday, the auto giant announced that it planned to eliminate as many as 44,000 jobs through buyouts and other cuts by 2008 as part of an attempt to reduce excess capacity and restore profitability.
Above all, we cannot return to the old ways of speculation and private excess.... "To restore genuine economic prosperity for all Americans, we need to build a New Foundation for economic growth.
Subsequently, it leads to enhanced cellular capability to remove excess electrophiles and restore redox homeostasis [ 11].
