In China, diamonds conjure up a sense of eternity, whereas for Indians they are associated with conspicuous wealth.
However, these Glass wearers stuck out, their telltale frames with conspicuous rectangular pieces making them easy to pick out in the crowd.
Even with this conspicuous caveat, puts and calls vied neck and neck in this week's action, with 30, 273 calls trading against 24, 342 puts midweek.
Luck will be young and vibrant and Indianapolis will shower him with a conspicuous amount of money.
In its letter, the alliance argued that pupils who took GCSE English in June had been treated with "conspicuous unfairness".
In its pre-action letter, the alliance said pupils who took GCSE English in June had been treated with "conspicuous unfairness".
With the conspicuous lack of a dying format to explain, this has got to be more optimistic than last year's HD DVD funeral, right?
Since then, the media has been fairly quiescent, at least with no conspicuous follow-up coverage as of this writing on the major search engine home pages.
Last month, it published a consultation document on devolving corporation tax to Holyrood, but with a conspicuous lack of any reckoning on its likely or possible impact.
Evernote acquired the Penultimate app for iPad last year with the conspicuous goal of making handwritten notes as easy to synchronize as to-do lists and snippets from the web.
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Now Bill Gates has taken Rockefeller's place as the man with the conspicuous market share, and Wal-Mart is the target of legislators who think retailing efficiencies should not be permitted to get out of hand.
Now Bill Gates has taken Rockefeller's place as the man with the conspicuous market share, and Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) is the target of legislators who think retailing efficiencies should not be permitted to get out of hand.
"Pride of ownership" was a favorite phrase of my father's, embodying an idea real as bread to a man of his background, one having to do not with social competitiveness or conspicuous consumption but with his standing as a manly provider.
Keeping up with the Joneses is conspicuous consumption that occurs when people compete with their peers by buying what they buy and doing what they do.
Instead, he sought to eclipse his most conspicuous difference with difference of another kind: exceptional pitching ability.
Something that is not just purchased for the way it works, looks or feels, but which provides us with the opportunity for conspicuous consumption at the same time.
He had exchanged words and a very conspicuous looking envelope with the head inspector.
Anyone marketing daily deals promotions must comply with these laws and include clear and conspicuous disclosures regarding expiration dates.
The problem with these and other proposals has been a conspicuous lack of evidence regarding which, if any of them is a good description of reality.
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The senators also added an exemption for companies that gather data through others, but have an "established business relationship" with a customer and are "clear, conspicuous and visible" to the customer.
Economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen took a crack at it in The Theory of the Leisure Class, the 1899 classic that wryly posited the theory of "conspicuous consumption, " his phrase for keeping up with the Joneses.
Barak will stand firm on the principle that Israel has no alternative but to make peace with the Palestinians, and will remind the electorate of the conspicuous failures of both Netanyahu and Sharon to make progress on this front.
That album finally equalled the conspicuous consumption he loves to talk about, sounding like what would be playing in a house filled with gilded bathtubs and expensive art.
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