In a meritocracy the Lords would increasingly come to represent a random sample of the population over the generations, as regression to the mean moves all to the average.
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As the chart indicates, the mean prediction for 2012 was 1, 360, which is about 5% below the current level of 1, 430.
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But ensuring a continuing net inflow of migrants into the cities as the youngest cohort shrinks will mean giving workers from the countryside more incentives to stay permanently (such as affordable housing and schooling).
Mr Lightman welcomed this suggestion - as having the same course content would mean that A-levels and AS-levels in the same subject could be taught in the same class, boosting the uptake of AS-levels.
The soldiers really had no personal connection to the player in the resource portion and the mission rewards didn't mean as much in the combat game.
The negative returns from the past decade are quite far from the market's mean, as measured over the last century.
In a short but tightly argued volume, he describes how the end of the Cold War did not mean the end as some thought, hoped, or perhaps dreamed of ideological conflict.
We do know for a fact that factors as diverse as climate change and aging populations mean that even as the global urban population continues to grow, some cities are shrinking.
Concerned as much about these cases as about General Pinochet's fate, the armed forces also think this amnesty should mean immunity from charges, as the dictatorship intended, rather than the courts' present interpretation of immunity only from punishment.
The bad news is that both candidates look as if they mean to tame the deficit using mostly tax rises instead of spending cuts.
With heavier snowfall expected in the UK it may mean that, as at the start of December, few destination airports remain open or aircraft are stranded outside the island.
Its role as the official opposition could mean, paradoxically, that Mr Charest's second term is easier than his first, despite having lost his majority.
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Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.
The concept is simple: the cheese is rolled down a hill and runners attempt to catch it, which is no mean feat as the wheel can reach speeds of up to 70mph.
The words mean just as much to him, if not more than the chord progressions that propel the song.
So while China's size will be a huge opportunity for Chinese people and the rest of the world as they consume more, it might not mean China and its customs will be copied all over the world, as has been the case for America over the past 50 years since it became so important.
Accordingly, while returning to earmarks may mean a return to wasteful spending of taxpayer money on projects that bring no benefit to the nation as a whole, it could also mean saving even more money than is wasted by avoiding the financial setbacks that come with endless debt ceiling debacles and fiscal cliff fumbles.
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And in some of the world's great winemaking regions, such as California, geological variations mean that the ability of soil to retain or lose moisture can change within distances of a few metres.
As such, this memorandum uses the word Shariah to mean all of Islamic jurisprudence, doctrine, and legal rulings, much as it is used in the vernacular by the typical Shariah-adherent Muslim.
Though the hustler can often do some hacking as well, the term has come to mean the person leading marketing, product management and fund-raising activities in the early stages.
To count as "senior" - the word used in the Diamond memo - that would have to mean a top official such as Sir Nicholas Macpherson, the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury.
Houllier was named the new Villa manager on Friday but his commitments as technical director with the French Football Federation mean he is unlikely to take charge of a Premier League game until 26 September when neighbours Wolves visit Villa Park.
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She then selected Morningside as a place to send the Mean Girls actress.
Rather than immediately defending him or her, or dismissing the feedback as wrong or mean-spirited, really stop and consider it.
Instead, there may be something to be gained by leaning less on modern gurus who pontificate about such things as best in class and more toward Aristotle, who defined virtue not in terms of maximum excellence, but as a habit of choosing the mean lying between the extremes.
These include increasing difficulties of mining far below the ground in the key producing nation of South Africa, as well as labor issues that mean higher costs and the threat of supply disruptions due to strikes.
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Using U.S. Census Bureau numbers from the 2000 census, that could mean as many as 950, 000 were affected by the fires.
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Now competing for the best French Impressionists, they mean to show themselves as men of the world in the fullest economic and cultural sense.
While the Obama campaign was quick to trumpet the results of the study as further proof that the Romney-Ryan plan would mean dramatically higher costs to seniors when it comes to their healthcare, the Romney campaign fired back, noting that the Kaiser report says that it is not intend to model any specific proposal of either campaign.
He writes only about Americans, thus avoiding the pitfalls of trying to figure out, for example, whether Japanese people mean the same thing as Danes when they say they are happy.
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