In age there is nothing between them: Mr Hague's bunch average 50 (ie, 14 years older than its leader), Mr Blair's 49 (which was then eight years older than the leader).

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The others had died in 1969 (ie, at the age of 73, the average life expectancy at birth of women born around Boston in 1896).

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This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.

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