The environmental analysts Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent write of high consumption being driven in the West – and on a global level – by a 'Coke and McDonalds culture', and they invoke the affluenzic impact of emulation and the key role of advertising.

This is the business of push-polling, a deceptive practice purporting to be a poll but actually designed to influence opinion.

An-shan was occupied in 1945 by the Soviet Army, which immediately began the systematic dismantling and removal of power-generating and transforming equipment, electric motors, the newest and best machine tools, experimental plants, laboratories, and hospitals.

In the presence of the Pope and within the Archbishopric of Rome, the cardinals and the bishops had to conceal the rochet beneath a so-called mantelletta, a knee-length coat, which was open at the front.