21.   They regulate their own affairs, rarely attend school past the sixth grade, and display a near compulsion for material goods.

22.   Today, ad managers say, status is not about acquiring material goods but about a style of living -- men calling their own shots.

23.   Throughout human history, fads and material goods have spread from one society to another without significantly altering the basic culture of the recipient society.

24.   Today, a challenge facing churches is how to shift interest from the material goods of the world to issues of social justice.

25.   What he meant, he said, was that men in the order share material goods, community life and spiritual purpose.

26.   But others blamed America, questioning whether Kim became obsessed with acquiring material goods because of his prolonged stay in the United States.

27.   Giving material goods to voters before elections is against the law.

28.   Rising material goods prices for manfacturers is evidence that inflation exists on the wholesale level, said Phillips.

29.   They say their youth was somehow purer because of a lack of material goods or competition for prestige and money.

30.   He castigated absentee parents who pander to errant children and substitute material goods for good old-fashioned Singaporean discipline.