National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.
But this is likely to mean a breeding population will become established.
The population does mean you get a more precise estimate of BMI simply by averaging over large numbers.
Changing demographics (more older women in the workforce, an aging population) mean more workers with eldercare responsibilities than ever before.
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Putting a lid on the prison population will mean restraining sentences.
Asking them, along with the rest of the developing world, to go back to 2000 emission levels with a 2050 population would mean putting them on a very drastic energy diet.
But there is also economic sense to it, as opening these top positions up to the other half of the population will mean an even more talented slate of candidates to choose from, making sure the best and brightest are better and brighter.
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That, in turn, could mean it would attract a sicker population, driving up costs.
Separately, China plans to strip power from the agency overseeing its one-child policy, which could mean the eventual phaseout of the population-control effort.
Rising treatment prices, an ageing population and ongoing fiscal austerity mean that it will have to change if it is to keep pace with expectations.
The ageing population and advances in medicine mean more and more people are living with chronic long-term conditions, such as heart disease and dementia, for which there is no cure.
We do know for a fact that factors as diverse as climate change and aging populations mean that even as the global urban population continues to grow, some cities are shrinking.
It would mean by 2050, Britain would have a population of nearly 72.4 million - overtaking Germany, whose population is projected to fall sharply over the period, as Europe's largest country.
But putting GPs in leadership positions in the NHS will mean they can improve services for their entire local population.
Here, the heroine of the previous films, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), crash-lands on a godforsaken planet whose population consists of a couple of dozen mean-looking convicts running some sort of dilapidated foundry.
An aging population and rising health-care costs mean that spending will rise again and imply a larger size of government than we have ever had but with all the growth coming from entitlements while projected federal revenues as a percentage of GDP after the rate cuts of the 2000s will likely remain below even historic levels of 18%.
So if population does matter after all, does that mean the Malthusians were right?
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Cholesterol UK said if that pattern was repeated among the UK population of 40 million adults, that would mean 12 million people did the same.
Calcutta's population fell slightly over the past decade, no mean achievement in a rapidly urbanising country.
In a meritocracy the Lords would increasingly come to represent a random sample of the population over the generations, as regression to the mean moves all to the average.
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Primary and preventative health care alternatives are often inadequate or inaccessible to a population where even an hour of missed income can mean the difference between food on the table or not.
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"Hamas needs to understand that Israel's basic desire to live in a tranquil region doesn't mean that Israel is willing to accept ongoing shooting at its population, " she said, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
It has yet to mean as much for the ill-educated, elderly and rural population.
If you start smo .... I mean smoking's gone down twenty two per cent of the population now, a further two per cent reduction.
Of course Israel has a right to defend itself, but that does not mean it is free to inflict a collective punishment on a whole population.
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Yes, today nearly 90% of the U.S. population has a wireless device, but that does not mean we are anywhere near saturation since we will all be carrying multiple devices for different tasks.
Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.
So, although there have been controversial cases usually those that have ignored the fact that people from the same ethnic group share particular genetic signatures more often than people drawn at random from the population finding the right signatures in a sample generally does mean you're nicked.
But just because this population is an ideal place to mine for bad genes doesn't mean those genes will be found, or that once they are found they will lead to valuable drugs or even genetic tests.
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