The composition of our ethnic population and also the difficulties presented by our geographical terrain make communication and development difficult.

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People choose different specialties and the number of males or whites or whatever choosing an occupation usually differs from the overall composition of the U.S. population.

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Before long, the Employment Equity Bill, passed in August but not yet implemented, will force all but the smallest firms to submit annual reports to show that they are trying to make the racial and sexual composition of their workforce match that of the local population.

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The strengths of the Swedish study reviewed here include the large population based prospective cohort design along with the long period of follow up to validate the composition of the kidney stones.

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Many of the people that will contribute to it have already been born, so short of some catastrophe that kills off large numbers of people, or some Viagra-fuelled leap in birth rates, population numbers and age composition can be predicted with fair accuracy for decades ahead.

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