The proportion of the self-employed making discretionary contributions to the pension system fell from 60% in the mid-1980s to 20% in the mid-1990s.
The Russians have been more co-operative over recent months - for example, cancelling the sale to Iran of an anti-missile system that fell foul of UN sanctions which the Russians themselves supported.
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Americans would have been promised universal coverage and insurers would have been forced to accept everyone regardless of their state of health but free riders could easily avoid paying into the system until they fell sick.
In an effort to save smartphones from the landfill, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently patented a design for a smartphone airbag system and we fell head over heels for the Scrubba, a portable washing machine made of lightweight material that's so small it can fit in your pocket.
With monetary stability assured by the gold standard system, bond yields fell everywhere to very low levels.
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System-wide traffic fell 1.5% in June compared with the same month a year ago, with domestic traffic dropping 2.7% while international traffic actually grew 0.3%.
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As a result, Mongolia, though poor, had a decent enough social-welfare system, and few Mongolians fell through its cracks.
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In the spring of 2007, he warned the G-7 finance ministers about the grave threat to the banking system, but his words "fell on deaf ears, " he says.
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He claimed that under the old system crime figures for the last year fell by 1.4%.
When the bubble burst in 1990, bad debts brought the banking system close to collapse and the nation fell into a decade of recession and deflation.
As home prices fell and loan losses mounted, more of the shadow system became insolvent.
After California voters passed a measure banning racial considerations at the University of California system, minority enrollment at the most prestigious schools fell.
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In other countries subsidies helped to kick-start demand, but Britain's system of conversion grants was badly run, and eventually fell foul of European state-aid rules.
The current Governor, Sir Mervyn King, fell out with the previous government over his refusal to supply liquidity to the banking system at the height of the 2008 crisis until cornered by a coalition of BOE and Treasury officials.
After Marcos fell in 1986, the IMF forced the Philippines to clean up its politically influenced banking system.
In the U.S., the Social Security system has taken on most of the burden for caring for elderly adults, a duty that traditionally fell to grown-up children.
The state education commissioner threatened Friday to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid unless New York City showed it was prepared to put a new teacher-evaluation system in place, ratcheting up pressure on the city a day after a deal on new evaluations fell apart.
For the conservative side, Justice Antonon Scalia said that he thought the Michigan system amounted to a quota, and questioned whether it furthered racial harmony if it upset many people who fell foul of its provisions.
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