It is not easy to pin down exact dates in a hazy age, but Western historians are probably right in marking off the period 1500 to the present as the age of European global predominance.
William Frey, a researcher with the Brookings Institution, which has kept detailed records and analysis of the city's population since the storm, said his analysis of 2006 census data released this month shows that those in the 25- to 35-year-old age range were least likely to be present in the city by July of last year.
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The present recession, the first major one in the age of globalization as we know it today, be even more tragic if that vision is set aside just when parts of the developing world are not just about catch up and but are about to spring into the lead, economically speaking.
Moreover, the age-based decline in entrepreneurial plans is present even after accounting for whether or not entrepreneurship classes are offered.
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At present, employers can set a mandatory retirement age in their employment contracts.
The Secretary of State does not regard Senator Pinochet's age as being in itself a sufficient basis for his present decision.
Is there something disconcerting about living in an age in which nostalgia for the past so dominates the present that we can almost feel nostalgic about our culture as it happens?
He thinks that the Pacific Ocean could become for present-day Russia what the Baltic Sea was for the country in the age of Peter the Great: a source of wealth and a gate to modernity.
Personal branding is the name of the game these days, and in our age of radical transparency it is informed not just by how you present yourself but also by the people you associate with.
About 20 thousand years ago, during a colder phase in this ice age, sea level was up to 130 metres lower than at present.
Only in old age did he start to speak out, not least to try to influence the present.
At present, about one in five pupils do not reach the expected level for English at the age of 11.
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Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.
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