In the process, it defined social equality as the access to 'material commodities'.
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Agriculture will bloom and there will be plenty of food commodities.
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People are not to be treated as commodities owned and used at will.
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Other societies, at other times, have simply regarded the elements of nature as commodities: sources of food, fuel, shelter, transport, and wealth.
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Attempts to create producer cartels for copper, aluminium and other commodities have, however, been less successful for lack of diplomatic solidarity.
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Excepting internationally priced commodities, this meant that all developing countries had to export more in order to import the same amount of goods and services.
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Final commodities and services would increasingly be produced in the home in the informal sector of the economy.
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The production of capital is, therefore, a production of capitalistically produced commodities.
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At a time when markets for their traditional manufactured commodities seemed to be in decline, the metropolitan market for their agricultural commodities continued to grow.
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They are, for him, serviceable commodities, but notably inferior to the deeds and actions they describe.
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The great late nineteenth-century expansion of trade in agricultural commodities, in contrast, generated dramatic declines in the price of food in the consuming regions.
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The two commodities contrasted with rubber's strong linkage effects, and serve as a reminder that staples may differ greatly in their spread effects over time.
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Rather, urbanization and the industrialization based on the processing of staples were both driven by the export of these commodities.
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As we said earlier, they were alike special commodities.
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The municipality has also established a number of market places, where commodities are traded and where cultural activities take place.
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Collocationswithcommodity
commodity
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agricultural commodity
For many writers of the 1960s and 1970s,agriculturalcommodityproduction was seen as an economic dead-end.
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basic commodity
It has the duty of providing for the community thebasiccommodity, coal.
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bulk commodity
Beeching wants to do is to concentrate on what he believes the railways can do best—bulk commodity carryings, not over short distances, but essentially on long hauls.
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