- "The
Acquisitive Chuckle" is a
mystery short story by
American writer Isaac Asimov in 1971,
first published in the
January 1972
issue of
Ellery Queen's...
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individualism of
modern society. Capitalism, he insisted,
encourages acquisitiveness and
thereby corrupts everyone. In the
latter book,
Tawney argues for...
- 1904
depiction of an
acquisitive and mani****tive
Standard Oil (founded by John D. Rockefeller) as an all-powerful octopus...
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Sociologist Stanley Cohen describes seven different types of vandalism:
Acquisitive vandalism (looting and
petty theft). Peer
pressure –
Teenagers spend...
- determined, such as altruism, are intrinsic, and
whether some, such as
acquisitiveness,
should be
classified as
vices or virtues.
Ethical issues that value...
- in
common law, and the
related civil law
concept of
usucaption (also
acquisitive prescription or
prescriptive acquisition), are
legal mechanisms under...
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James I (late July 1394 – 21
February 1437) was King of
Scots from 1406
until his ********ination in 1437. The
youngest of
three sons, he was born in Dunfermline...
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favour of the
return to the
normal French civil rule of
prescription acquisitive of any
unclaimed good
after another long
period of time and consequently...
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Jordan comes to seem like the
manifestation of pure
American acquisitiveness, and
acquisitiveness of a
strangely boyish kind, as if he had
finalized all his...
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society tends to have a
negative or
critical connotation. Also
called acquisitiveness, it is
often ****ociated with a
value system that
regards social status...
