While a typical 60-year-old today might pay five to seven times more for health insurance than a 20-year-old, the new law limits that ratio to three times what a typical young person might pay, says Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's trade group.

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The team said for a "typical person" the forces were almost unimaginable, the closest comparison they could make was with a rollercoaster -- though that is some way off.

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The Met Office's "feels like temperature" takes into account expected air temperature, relative humidity and the strength of the wind at around 5 feet (1.5m) - the typical height of a person's face.

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One study shows that adding ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country boosts growth in GDP per person by 0.8 percentage points.

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Twenty years ago, the typical homeless person in Paris was likely to be a single, middle-aged French man.

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It's the price of a basket of goods and services that actually is typical of what no one person actually spends.

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In a much-cited study in 2005, for example, Leonard Waverman of the London Business School found that an extra ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country added 0.6 percentage points of growth in GDP per person.

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The typical person did not participate in the money-shuffling of the last decade, except in a modest and unfortunate way.

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