This has the biggest implications for the baby bust generation (born 1966-1985) as they approach what should be their prime earning years and for younger baby boomers that will be facing a vacuum of demand from younger generations when they want to retire, sell the family home and down-size.
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And by "critical, " I doubt very much that Ebert would have meant a position of carping or complaining or even cutting-down-to-size so much as a state of heightened perception, of being open enough to the possibility that whatever you're looking at or listening to may not be what it seems -- or should be.
That explains recent speculation about a multi-coloured rainbow alliance voting with David Cameron and company to cut the Commons down to size - an alliance that would probably have to include unionists, nationalists, independents and a Green.
That fact alone could chop the ethanol industry down to size--if only drivers knew it.
President Vladimir Putin has said he wants to cut Russia's richest businessmen - the so-called "oligarchs" - down to size.
Whether they realize it or not, Obamacare takes this choice away from states and hands down a one-size-fits-all set of regulations on all of these fronts.
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Al-Mustaqbal should win a good number of seats, cutting the old-timers down to size.
Hours after a judge struck down the 16-ounce size limit for sodas and some other sweet drinks as arbitrary and outside city health regulators' purview, Bloomberg defended it as a groundbreaking anti-obesity effort and all but challenged businesses to comply out of concern for their customers.
On Tuesday it struck again, revising its lineup of all-in-one iMac desktops, dropping the price, shaving them down in size and adding a brushed-aluminum finish.
It was a vastly scaled-down take on a scrapped project to make forklift-size robotic floor scrubbers for household-cleaner giant S.C.
In this debate, it was just another major issue winnowed down to zinger-ready bite size.
He remembers the first time the orchestra performed the Eroica Symphony, with a pared-down ensemble similar in size to the one Beethoven used.
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It began by raising the capital reserves its banks had to hold, in effect removing money from its financial system, and increasing the size of down-payments required to purchase real estate.
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It has raised the amount of reserves its banks must hold, thus discouraging lending, raised mortgage rates and the size of required down-payments.
Fall in love with amenities such as king-size beds with natural down duvets and triple-Italian linens, remote-controlled fixtures, and a fully stocked private bar.
All of the content is available on your phone as long as you've got a data connection -- regardless of the amount of storage available on the device -- because it pulls down thumbnails as you scroll through your gallery and requests the full-size images in real time as you tap on them.
Mr Sarkozy has set the lean example in his own slimmed-down cabinet which is about half the size of his predecessor Jacques Chirac's team.
Top-down programmes attempted to control the total size of national populations.
Microsoft has countered by importing Windows CE, a stripped-down version of Windows that can run anything from cellular telephones to videogame consoles, to palm-size computers.
It breaks down even the most daunting tasks into achievable, bite-size chunks and brings list-making into the Internet era.
Well, Tactus has been sampling some new coating materials attempting to reduce glare -- and succeeding -- and to cut down on the controller's size by 70 percent and in so doing also doubled up the speed that the keyboard activates.
Lower down the range, there was the Volga, a mid-size saloon whose interior tended to fill with petrol fumes.
For the first time, most courses this year were taken in bite-size chunks, although coursework has been cut down and replaced with school-based controlled assessments.
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They use an MPEG-4 video codec to keep the file size down, but either way you're still going to need a mighty Memory Stick to store all those extra clips you'll be recording.
Which is the short explanation for why many small and medium size businesses complain that banks are letting them down - and why it has become such an important economic and political issue to stimulate lending to a sector so central to the capacity for recovery of the UK economy.
In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.
Then there are questions of who would buy Lehman and what the size of its commercial mortgage-backed securities write-down will be next week.
The cut is more than meets the eye though, as the lower top-line forecast is largely the result of success in cutting down the size of GE Capital faster than anticipated.
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The size of distribution is the other big difference to other scaled-down PCs.
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In America it was easy to get a mortgage for 100% or more of the value of a home, but Chinese buyers must put down a minimum deposit of 20-30%, depending on the home's size, and as much as 40% on second homes.
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