Across from them are developing countries that lag decades, even centuries, behind in terms of affluence, nutrition, literacy and urbanization.
Apple's mobile audience appears not only to be prime targets in terms of affluence, but also in how prepared they are to spend that money via mobile transactions.
"In terms of affluence, you're going to see more Mexican [and other Hispanic] professionals coming to the United States in addition to those who wash your car and do your gardening".
This is vehemently opposed by the 'indigenes' who wish to keep these resources for themselves and feel that the settlers already have enough of an advantage over them in terms of numbers and affluence.
In terms of children with more affluence, there is less of a need to work and make money".
Marketing solutions and ad sales, which enables marketers to target a pretty unique audience in terms of value-added, influence, affluence and education….The premium subscriptions audience which enables us to cherrypick products and services to get them in front of the right member at the right time.
The term "affluenza" -- a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, defined as a "painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste, resulting from the dogged pursuit of more" -- is often dismissed as a silly buzzword created to express our cultural disdain for consumerism.
This very funny, though ultimately catastrophic plot device gives Mr Franzen the opportunity to focus on the price that is exacted for American (for that, read Western) material affluence in terms of our planet, our emotional well-being and our children's future.
It was an age of Rabelaisian indulgence and the wealthiest men, men who had made their moneys in the railroads, stockyards and oil fields, were not averse to displaying their affluence in terms of who had the largest stickpin, broadest stomach and, of course, biggest cigar.
Woolf studies the morality we attach to food choices, the influence of affluence, what I'd term the fiction of perfection that permeates the average female life.
The term "affluenza" was popularized in the late 1990s by Jessie O'Neill, in her book The Golden Ghetto: The Psychology of Affluence.
