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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"thrift"”.
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Discretionary thrift at the bottom of the pyramid
… is to investigate the concept of discretionary thrift amongst low income consumers. Flatters and Willmott (2009) identified discretionary thrift as an advancing trend amongst affluent developed nation consumers. These consumers temper their spending habits depending on product or occasion; there …
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The role of thrift institutions in Boston's housing markets.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. B.S.
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Mergers and the Structure of Organizational Populations: Revisiting the Thrift Industry via Peter Blau
… for populations of organizations with respect to thrift mergers in the entire United States over a 29-year merger period. For the nominal dimensions over the entire span of 29 years, there is support for in-breeding; however, for the graduated dimensions for this time period out-breeding is …
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El slow fashion como nueva forma de sostenibilidad y responsabilidad socioambiental, mediante las prácticas del Upcycling y Thrift Shopping en Lima Metropolitana: caso @SHOPFROMMARS
… prácticas del upcycling (de ropa) y el thrift shopping (venta de ropa de segunda mano) en Lima Metropolitana dentro de un contexto de reactivación post pandemia. El artículo analiza diversos emprendimientos que optaron por ofrecer productos reciclados; además de entender el “saber hacer” …
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Salvation Army : the next generation
The Salvation Army thrift stores are retail entities in the center of neighborhoods which collect and resell used objects. Although historically dear to many, it seems that the physical condition, market visibility, and social perception of these stores do not always match the importance of the …
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A delicate dance: autoethnography, curriculum, and the semblance of intimacy
… might describe as a “truth likeness” (p. 97). Thrift (1997) explores dance as “as an example of play; a kind of exaggeration of everyday embodied joint action which contains within it the capacity to hint at different experiential frames, ‘elsewheres’ which are here” (p. 150). Thrift (1997) …
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A report of the credit union at the Veterans Administration regional office, Roanoke, Virginia
… a cooperative association, organized to promote thrift among its members and to accumulate a fund from these savings to make needed loans to members for useful purposes at reasonable interest rates. It is chartered and supervised by the Federal Government through the Bureau of Federal Credit …
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Original stories and tales emphasizing the theme of conservation for use with kindergarten children to which are attached a group of poems for children of the same age
<p>Thrift, that homely, old-fashioned virtue, is the theme of the following thesis. Webster defines it as "care and wisdom in the management of one's resources." Now, in our national emergency, we find it becoming the mode, and likely to be valued more and more as America assumes her world …
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Inventive infrastructures : an exploration of mobile phone 'repair' cultures in Kampala, Uganda
… towards a role of service provision (Graham and Thrift 2007: 19).
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Striving for Balance: An Exploration of Regulatory Effectiveness in Financial Services Regulation, 1989 to 2008
… the Comptroller of the Currency, and Office of Thrift Supervision. The study focused on the relationships between regulatory ability to prevent failures and influences including agency longevity, ability to manage complexity, appointee and staff qualities, mission stability, regulatory style, …
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Financial Reality Post-retirement: Federal Retirees
… Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS), the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), and pension options, and any financial challenges or barriers they faced during the decision-making process. The study also investigates retirees' financial adjustments post-retirement and their overall satisfaction with …
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Your Thoughts Projected: Television Comedies, Economic Content, and American Economic Attitudes, 1949-1990
… of economic content, including consumption, thrift, employment, and other significant and relevant economic factors, but the economic content found in television comedies accurately reflected Americans' economic attitudes over time. As a result, television comedies' economic content further …
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Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
… local, state, and imperial court trials of “spendthrifts” from early modern Württemberg, the thesis shows that prodigality laws provided litigants with a flexible, multifaceted tool to prevent reckless financial mismanagement. Once laws began to criminalize wastefulness in the mid-sixteenth …
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Diagnosis, epidemiology and immunologic consequences of copper deficiency in calves
… diarrhea, long bone fractures, generalized ill-thrift, and decreased fertility. Recent studies have demonstrated that copper deficiency is common in North American beef cattle. This body of work addresses diagnosis, epidemiology and the immunologic consequences of copper deficiency in calves. …
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The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, And Industry Collapse During The 2008 Financial Crisis
… Comptroller of the Currency, and The Office of Thrift Supervision. Though public administration and policy scholars have moved away from capture theory toward a more pluralistic understanding of agency policymaking, recent events like the Gulf oil spill, coal mining disasters, and the 2008 …
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The Poverty of Simplicity: Austerity, Alienation, and Tiny Houses
… – its call for the working class to embrace thrift as a way of life – has been adorned by and rebranded through the discourse of "simplicity." Financially enforced asceticism is, upon being dragged through liberal (and now neoliberal) ideology, an opportunity for spiritual transcendence, …
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Growing Queer: youth temporality and the ethics of group sex in contemporary Moroccan & South African literature
… achieved international acclaim for this 'thrift and intolerance for corruption’ (Paget). However, Magufuli’s “morality crusade” quickly spiralled into authoritarianism, with a clampdown on freedom of speech and on opposition to his party, Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) (Ibid). The party has …
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Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown : social embeddedness and the transformation of the rust belt
… Challenging both learning region (Amin and Thrift 1994; Florida 1995) and communitarian social capital (Putnam 2000) perspectives on sub-national socio-economic change processes, this thesis argues that the cities' economic divergence can be traced to differences in the social structures in …
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