| 1. | " Long before Americans
enjoyed the luxury or necessity of debating the higher meaning of
nature, England was polarized between those whose conception of land was
economic and those whose conception was aesthetic and political."
| Source: | Lewis, Michael J. "The American view of landscape" New Criterion 18.8 Apr. 1 2000: 4
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| 2. | " In the early twentieth
century, when medicine was a cash business and family funds were
carefully husbanded to cover the necessities of childbirth and
contagious illness, the distinctive economics of cosmetic surgery made
it a luxury of the few."
| Source: | HAIKEN, ELIZABETH. "The Making of the Modern Face: Cosmetic Surgery" Social Research 67.1 Mar. 22 2000: 81
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| 3. | "... [97]
Alexander Elster, a specialist in trademark law at the University
of Jena, wrote a number of articles that summarized the debate about
luxury and fashion and transformed other theorists' reluctant
acceptance of fashion's economic necessity into a more positive
assessment..."
| Source: | Simmons, Sherwin. "Ernst Kirchner's Streetwalkers: Art, Luxury, and Immorality in Berlin, 1913-16" Art Bulletin 82.1 Mar. 1 2000: 117
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| 4. | " In addition,
rather than developing this social analysis of consumption by implicitly
abandoning the importance of needs and necessity, as has been observed
for Lavoie (1992) and Pasinetti (1981), for Bourdieu luxury tastes are
socially formed in opposition to necessity."
| Source: | Trigg, Andrew B. "Deriving the Engel curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the social critique of Maslow's hierarchy of needs" Review of Social Economy 62.3 Sept. 1 2004: 393-407
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| 5. | "
Thinking and writing about it, however, was thin on the ground,
especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which were apt
to divide goods into those of necessity, those of comfort and those of
luxury, comment appropriately on each and leave it there."
| Source: | Wedd, George. "British consumerism examined" Contemporary Review 285.1665 Oct. 1 2004: 241-244
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| 6. | " Liberal Democrats wanted the
party to reduce import duties on goods that ordinary Americans used as
necessities while keeping high tariffs on luxury goods for the rich."
| Source: | DiBacco, Thomas V. "Past conventions featured heated platform debates" Washington Times Aug. 16 2000: 14
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| 7. | "
Goods which to one generation may have been luxuries become necessities
to the next--the automobile is a case in point."
| Source: | MACUNOVICH, DIANE J. "Relative Cohort Size: Source of a Unifying Theory of Global Fertility Transition?" Population and Development Review 26.2 June 1 2000: 235
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| 8. | "... (1990).
(16) Notice that the classification of commodities between
`necessity' and `luxury' is based on the sign of the income
coefficient, ([[Beta].sub.it])*."
| Source: | ANDRIKOPOULOS, ANDREAS A.,LOIZIDES, JOHN. "The demand for home-produced and imported alcoholic beverages in Cyprus: the AIDS approach" Applied Economics 32.9 July 15 2000: 1111
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| 9. | "... are the most delightful luxuries which they can enjoy, a
benevolent man may perhaps be of [the] opinion that they ought to be
suffered to doze in their huts, except when necessity may drive them to
employ an occasional hour of angling,..."
| Source: | Goldner, Ellen J. "" Studies in American Fiction 28.1 Mar. 22 2000: 39
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| 10. | " That government hires lawyers to prosecute and defendants who
have the money hire lawyers to defend are the strongest indications of the
widespread belief that lawyers in criminal courts are necessities, not
luxuries...."
| Source: | Gardner, Martin R. "The Sixth Amendment right to counsel and its underlying values: defining the scope of privacy protection" Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 90.2 Jan. 1 2000: 397
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| 11. | " Mason went on to
say: 'In a history full of defeat and disaster the urge to
"think again" is more a necessity than luxury, for expressing
symbolically the "might-have-beens"..."
| Source: | Kingston, Klari. "LETTERS" History Today 50.7 July 1 2000: 60
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| 12. | " This question is
a topic of research in and of itself, which one might begin to address
by asking whether government money tends to displace private giving more
for necessities than "luxuries." If this is the case--if
funding for services such as the..."
| Source: | Brooks, Arthur C. "Is There a Dark Side to Government Support for Nonprofits?" Public Administration Review 60.3 May 1 2000: 211
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| 13. | " Therefore, if [[Alpha].sub.i] [is
greater than] [[Beta].sub.i], then commodity i is a necessity and if
[[Beta].sub.i] [is greater than] [[Alpha].sub.i] then commodity i is a
luxury."
| Source: | FRY, JANE M.,FRY, TIM R. L.,MCLAREN, KEITH R. "Compositional data analysis and zeros in micro data" Applied Economics 32.8 June 20 2000: 953
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| 14. | "
There are no Starbucks coffeehouses in Elko, no one here wears a
Stetson just for show and four-wheel-drive is a necessity, not another
yuppie luxury option."
| Source: | Paige, Sean. "A Battle Brewing in the Wild West" Insight on the News 16.14 Apr. 17 2000: 22
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| 15. | " However important, it too can be a luxury that
can impair the ability to protect necessities."
| Source: | Haass, Richard N. "Five Not-So-Easy Pieces" Brookings Review 18.2 Mar. 22 2000: 38
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| 16. | " From Adam Smith to J K Galbraith, they have observed and
welcomed the graduation of luxuries into necessities."
| Source: | ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS, HUGH. "Luxury rip-off" New Statesman (1996) 129.4479 Mar. 27 2000: 48
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| 17. | " In John Terborgh's words, "wild nature and the
bio-diversity it perpetuates are not a necessity for humans; they are a
luxury" and "sustainable development will remain an oxymoron
until population growth ceases." More concisely: people and
biological diversity don't mix."
| Source: | ELLISON, AARON M. "WE CAN RUN BUT WE CANNOT HIDE" Ecology 81.3 Mar. 1 2000: 883
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| 18. | " In a history full of defeat and disaster
the urge to `think again' is more a necessity than a luxury, for in
expressing symbolically the `might have..."
| Source: | Mason, John W. "HUNGARY'S BATTLE FOR MEMORY" History Today 50.3 Mar. 1 2000: 28
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| 19. | " Also+ you must pay for all
the doctor visits (and doctor oversight of a VLCD is a necessity, not a
luxury)."
| Source: | Roberts, Shauna S. "The Diabetes Advisor" Diabetes Forecast 53.1 Jan. 1 2000: 37
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| 20. | " The difference is
that Foote had the luxury of stoking the debate, while Whitefield
realized the necessity of remaining silent."
| Source: | Kinservik, Matthew J. "THE CENSORSHIP OF SAMUEL FOOTE'S THE MINOR : STAGE CONTROVERSY IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY" Studies in the Literary Imagination 32.2 Sept. 22 1999: 89
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| 21. | " However, it has become a necessity because most facilities
no longer have the luxury of dedicated safety and health personnel for
technical backup."
| Source: | Mansdorf, Zack. "Safety and Health in the New Millennium" Occupational Hazards 61.3 Mar. 1 1999: 12
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| 22. | " Unfortunately they have not been accorded a deserving welcome
in our country due to lack of awareness, and have been tagged as luxury
rather than as a basic necessity."
| Source: | . "My Water in the New Millennium" Economic Review 30.8 Aug. 1 1999: 78
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| 23. | "
BUSINESS TODAY IS moving forward at the speed of light, and if
entrepreneurs want to remain competitive, continuously training
employees can no longer be considered a luxury, but a necessity."
| Source: | GRIFFIN, CYNTHIA E. "Employee Training Is A TV Away" Entrepreneur 27.4 Apr. 1 1999: 178
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| 24. | "... the same underwear for fifteen
of those thirty years and some pieces longer than that
writing friends is a luxury, enemies a necessity, my car
was stripped and stolen months..."
| Source: | Coleman, Wanda. "Things No One Knows" Progressive 63.11 Nov. 1 1999: 40
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| 25. | "
Of course, this was a group that didn't need convincing when
she said, "Preservation is not a luxury but a necessity, because if
we lose our heritage, we lose our collective memory."
| Source: | Geracimos, Ann. "Preservationists mark own history" Washington Times Oct. 25 1999: 5
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