Few demands, other than pecuniary ones, are made on Soka Gakkai's followers, who are taught to attain enlightenment and prosperity through chanting sacred phrases handed down from a 13th-century monk called Nichiren.
Work matters more for psychological reasons than pecuniary ones.
To be sure, the adequacy of such a reductive analogy between the rewards of studying anything, be it a foreign language or quantum field theory, and the pecuniary returns on an investment of time and tuition can be questioned on many grounds.
This inflicted a huge negative "pecuniary externality" on Fannie and Freddie, driving up house prices in the normally sound mortgage markets they serve.
The Auburn deputy mayor failed to disclose a pecuniary interest on three occasions between November 2012 and December 2013, the civil and administrative tribunal of New South Wales found on Friday.
Later, the offense of simony was extended to include all traffic in benefices and all pecuniary transactions on masses (apart from the authorized offering), blessed oils, and other consecrated objects.
On one pecuniary matter, however, Mr. Catsimatidis was quite clear.
At first glance, the archbishop's curriculum vitae might appear to focus more on things pecuniary than pious.
These results are of great relevance from an industrial relations perspective because they indicate a dilemma for trade unions: The upper limit for a possible gain in vacation due to union membership, as indicated by the FE-estimates, is relatively small and would presumably not induce employees to join a union exclusively based on pecuniary motives.
Rather, Hollywood is a business that is focused on pecuniary values that frankly doesn't care what they're peddling as long as it sells.
