• At the other end of the age-scale, he wants to inveigle twice that number of retired people back into teaching by promising that anyone who tutors a child for 500 hours can earn a college scholarship for a grandchild.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • At the other end of the age scale, the Age UK charity pointed out that older women were increasingly prone to joblessness.

    BBC: UK unemployment falls by 35,000 to 2.65m, ONS reports

  • At the other end of the age scale Sagi Burton has strengthened the defence, while according to Fairclough, midfielder Jason Puncheon has been a revelation.

    BBC: CHOOSE A SPORT

  • Only a fraction of the original city remains, but in their age and scale, the ruins are reminiscent of the Angkorean temples of Cambodia.

    BBC: A new dawn in Burma

  • For instance, it asks you to slide a button along the bottom of a birthday cake to determine your age, or to rate your pain on a scale of happy green to angry red.

    CNN: Forms at the doctor's office just got fun

  • Prompting these reflections is the spectacle we see everywhere how difficult it is has become for democracies to reduce the scale and scope of old age social welfare entitlements, even as the costs threaten to bankrupt many countries while placing a punishing burden of debt on future generations.

    FORBES: Cutting Old Age Entitlements: Why Japan Can Lead the Way

  • Add to that our coal and comparable amounts of cheap natural gas, and America is sitting on a hydrocarbon gusher that is unprecedented in scale since the dawn of the oil age.

    FORBES: America Take Note: Technology Unleashes Black Gold to Rescue Ireland's Economy

  • With the U.S. tech sector now reaching what some might call middle age, it is very unlikely that anyone will again make money on the scale of Bill Gates.

    FORBES: The up and comers

  • But it has also arguably left large parts of the European small business sector under-capitalized and impeded the development of a healthy market for corporate control, holding back economies such as Italy in an age when scale matters.

    WSJ: Rock Star Draghi Needs a New Song for Europe

  • But it's not just the scale of the wealth that's notable in the Hamptons, it's the age of it.

    BBC: Escape from New York

  • These include one measure to delay the age of retirement on full pension for women, another to abolish the state minimum pension and replace it with a sliding scale, and a third to reform health schemes run by trade unions.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina��s distant allies and the fiscal gap

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