wanderlust, impulse, impulse buy, ideological

Obama Lifts Bush’s Strict Limits on Stem Cell Research

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG 2:59 PM ET

In a ceremony at the White House, President Obama pledged that his administration will “make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”

All the papers today lead with the big news that Congress passed president Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill last night. The Washington Post says the bill's passage marks the beginning of a new ideological era with the federal government at the center of the nation's economic recovery.

Clinton vows a foreign policy 'neither impulsive nor ideological'
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Clinton leaves Sunday on a trip that will take her to Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and China. The financial crisis will be an urgent topic in China, ...

Not on the List? The Truth about Impulse Purchases
Retailers and manufacturers of consumer goods have long believed that most grocery store purchases are unplanned, and that showy displays will push more goods into shopping carts. The displays may help sales, but the underlying assumption -- that most grocery store sales are impulse buys -- is wrong, according to a new research paper co-authored by Wharton marketing professor David Bell.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/2132.cfm

There's only one bad thing about traveling: You have to leave town to do it. Some of us have just come back from vacation, after all, and there's the stuff we need to catch up on.

Fortunately there's a way to work off wanderlust: Travel-themed places right here in Tokyo where you can get a taste of the road even as you plan your next escape.

wanderlust

(wŏn'dər-lŭst')

n.

A very strong or irresistible impulse to travel.

[German : wandern, to wander (from Middle High German) + Lust, desire (from Middle High German, from Old High German).]

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impulse (DESIRE) Show phonetics
noun [C + to infinitive]
a sudden strong desire to do something:
I had this sudden impulse to shout out "Rubbish!" in the middle of her speech.

impulsive Show phonetics
adjective
showing behaviour in which you do things suddenly without any planning and without considering the effects they may have:
Don't be so impulsive - think before you act.
an impulsive man/decision/gesture

impulse purchase
Spontaneous, rather than premeditated, buying of something; also called impulse buy. The entire concept behind point-of-purchase advertising is to stimulate the impulse purchase.

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impulse buying noun [U]
when you buy something that you had not planned to buy, because you suddenly want it when you see it:
They display chocolates next to supermarket checkouts to encourage impulse buying.

impulse buy noun [C]
I hadn't intended to get one - it was an impulse buy.


ideology Hide phonetics
noun [C or U]
a theory, or set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party or organization is based:
socialist/capitalist ideology
The people are caught between two opposing ideologies.

ideologue Hide phonetics
noun [C] FORMAL
a person who believes very strongly in particular principles and tries to follow them carefully

ideological Hide phonetics
adjective
based on or relating to a particular set of ideas or beliefs:
ideological differences
There are some fairly profound ideological disagreements within the movement.

ideologically Hide phonetics
adverb
The government is ideologically opposed to spending more on the arts (= this is in opposition to its political beliefs).
Little separates the two women ideologically (= they believe in similar things) .