Gyrating 401(k) and IRA retirement fund balances and the low yields from fixed-income investments also have those approaching retirement or who have just entered it flocking to financial advisers for help in deciding upon how to allocate their portfolios to limit risk.
No wonder more homeowners have begun approaching the foreclosure process as a viable financial option.
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But recently Asian countries, and some European ones, have been approaching the problem with a bit more imagination.
They say people have begun approaching the U.S. military who say they want to go back to work.
Then they could have something approaching a normal family life.
Thrilled to have arrived and still be alive, you see the doctor approaching and have a surge of confidence that you will survive.
Some eastern countries like Latvia now have fertility rates approaching 1.2.
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And with reason: they have reached nothing approaching a consensus on which of the two main parties they would prefer as partners, or whether coalition would be acceptable at all.
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They must help shoulder a national deficit that, according to a recent report of the Congressional Budget Office, if we continue on our path will have our GDP approaching 100% of our debt by 2020.
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We have a habit of approaching new technology with careful thought before building any new product.
Because there is no mature bond market and the currency remains unconvertible, individuals in China have a savings rate approaching 50%.
The UN's refugees agency says the number of Syrians who have fled the conflict into neighbouring countries is now approaching one million, while two million have been internally displaced.
"Coming out of it you have a new way of approaching problems...a new skill set, mentality and network, " Mr. Bandali says.
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Though there are no clear signs yet that uranium stocks have bottomed, they are approaching long-term support where a bottom is likely to be completed.
Meanwhile, several sentiment indicators that we follow are approaching levels that have been consistent with bottoms during various corrective phases since the 2009 market bottom.
Finally, when we are approaching decisions that have previously been unthinkable, it would appear judicious to have the capacity to explore, rethink, and revise, as we explore the unknown.
Both have spent massively, PSG approaching half a billion dollars in two years, Galatasaray substantially less, but still enough to attract two highly paid veteran reinforcements in January: Wesley Sneijder and Didier Drogba.
Mr. LUIS LUGO (Director, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life): Almost close to half are of the view that it could develop into a larger conflict, perhaps even approaching what some have called a clash of civilizations.
Its captain knew the Iranian gunboats were approaching and could have blown them out of the water in a moment from a distance but chose to not do so apparently in deference to UN and British government non-military action rules of engagement with Iran.
And in the 9-11 Commission, we pointed out that every bit of intelligence showed that New York was the epicenter of the targeting of al-Qaeda and every other Islamist group and that we did not have in New York anything approaching the kind of command and control or communications that could deal with that threat.
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If the car had not been approaching the crash would have been survivable, the coroner said.
And the uncertainty created even by approaching that deadline will have negative consequences.
On none of these issues have the international architects reached anything approaching consensus.
While research continues, many schools are approaching kids who might have problems earlier through a strategy known as "responsive intervention" rather than waiting for them to fail, says Dixon Deutsch, executive director of NYC Charter School Center's Special Education Collaborative.
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Indeed, homebuilders like KB Home, DR Horton, Toll Brothers, and the PulteGroup have seen their shares rally tremendously, approaching 52-week highs as earnings improved.
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Professor TOBIAS SEIDL (University of Zurich): You have to know a lot about yourself, and you have to know a lot about your approaching speed.
With the Spyder Trust ( SPY) already up 9.3% this year, stocks have exceeded that yearly average and are approaching the median return of 10.39%.
With sanctions biting and the Iranian elections approaching, senior Western officials have said they think Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has for now decided to keep the country's nuclear program within the "red lines" demanded by Israel.
The price fall corresponds with a rise in the aluminum stockpile kept by the London Metal Exchange (LME) which was sitting close to a five-year high of 519, 000 tons in mid-February, but which has since slipped marginally to 517, 000 tons, indicating the that Chinese stockpile buying might have started when LME warehouses levels were approaching a peak.
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