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- noun Plural form of
consumerist .
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The regulation is a favorite of big Web content companies and Naderite consumerists who want more political sway over the Internet.
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More About: ask the consumerists, crate and barrel, furniture, delivery
How Can I Convince Crate & Barrel To Finally Give Me My Furniture? - The Consumerist 2008
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In the next generation, Central and South America will be the next battle fields for rich countries fighting over natural resources which they need to continue growing and keeping up with their consumerists, excessive ways of life.
GroundReport: Avatar is Real: Indigenous Peoples are Being Displaced by Wars and Corporations 2010
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In the next generation, Central and South America will be the next battle fields for rich countries fighting over natural resources which they need to continue growing and keeping up with their consumerists, excessive ways of life.
Avatar is Real: Indigenous Peoples are Being Displaced by Wars and Corporations 2010
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Reagan concluded that "professional consumerists are, in reality, elitists who think they know better than you do what's good for you."
Lawrence B. Glickman: Consumer Protection Redux: The Lessons of History 2009
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Ronald Reagan, the ex-Governor of California, criticized the consumerists-whom he compared to Orwell's "Big Brother," in several op-ed pieces and radio commentaries in 1975-for "promoting the notion that people are too dumb to buy a box of corn flakes without being cheated."
Lawrence B. Glickman: Consumer Protection Redux: The Lessons of History 2009
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Fundamentalist consumerists could not care less about workers 'rights, human-scale business, environmental sanity, and -- as the surviving friends and family of Wal-Mart temporary maintenance worker Jdimytai Damour will attest -- human life.
Bruce E. Levine: "Fundamentalist Consumerism" Kills Us Quickly and Slowly 2009
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Fundamentalist consumerists could not care less about workers\ 'rights, human-scale business, environmental sanity, and -- as the surviving friends and family of Wal-Mart temporary maintenance worker Jdimytai Damour will attest -- human life.
Bruce E. Levine: "Fundamentalist Consumerism" Kills Us Quickly and Slowly 2009
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While fundamentalist Jews, Christians, and Moslems are singularly attached to their literal interpretations of particular texts, fundamentalist consumerists are singularly attached to cheap stuff.
Bruce E. Levine: "Fundamentalist Consumerism" Kills Us Quickly and Slowly 2009
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But modern, progressive, tolerant, inclusive, diverse, 21st century consumerists like yourself believe and act the way they do simply because they are driven by an ever more demanding standard of material satisfaction.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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