Mr Putin has increasingly relied on the support of the rural population and industrial workers, as well as the 40% or so of the electorate who are elderly.
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In 2008, the total world robot population including service and industrial robots was 8.6 million ande xpected to grow to 13 million by the end of 2012.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the buy-local movement, said Yonkers, is our nation's deep reliance on an industrial agricultural system, and a population accustomed to having all types of food available at all times, no matter what the season.
These days Gujarat accounts for 5% of India's population but 16% of its industrial output and 22% of its exports.
You simply cannot have industrial age lifestyles for 69% of the population, using too-clever arbitrage schemes involving Internet marketing of health-supplements.
But the demographic challenges of the Big Orange and the Windy City pale compared to those faced by many cities in the old industrial Rust Belt, which have either lost population or posted only weak increases.
Far from dead, our manufacturing sector is the world's largest, with 5% of the world's population producing five times their share in industrial goods.
All are advanced industrial societies with a large middle class, an aging population and an Anglo-Saxon legal tradition.
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Remember that in 1941 the U.S. had a population of more than 130 million and a far more powerful industrial base than Japan had.
Enrollment at the secondary level has grown, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of the student-age population, and attainment rates compare favorably with those of other industrial countries.
Turkmenistan also has a population of only about 5 million, and little real domestic industrial activity, which means that the domestic demand for this energy is quite low, at a consumption rate of 21 bcm in 2009.
Huntington described the conditions that would be present in post-industrial societies and cause a conflict of interest between government employees and the larger population of American taxpayers, with elected officials caught in the middle.
The population in rural Kansas is shrinking, as family farms give way to industrial-sized farms that require fewer workers.
So we can expect America's population to continue growing at close to the highest rate in the advanced industrial world while Europe remains among the most rapidly aging places on earth.
By a happy accident, this concentrated industrial activity in the regions where coal was readily available, and a potato-driven population boom provided ample workers for the new factories.
As more and more of the population became employed in manufacturing, directly or indirectly, and the number and size of industrial facilities grew, the contradiction between the capacity and its under utilization grew.
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In addition, the long-term growth factors for Caterpillar remain intact as rising world population, prosperity and urbanization will increase demand for energy and resources, promoting growth across its industrial businesses: construction, mining and power systems.
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