There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, contains a plethora of naturally-occurring compounds, including several classes of antioxidants.
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.
At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.
Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.
My heartaches, sadness has consumed me, emptiness has filled me, hold me do not let me slip away.
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.
I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
