And the third is what will happen to the firm when its fabulous oldsters step down.
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This family-friendly game looks both charming enough for younger players and complex enough to give the oldsters a challenge.
Germany likewise is now considering a special tax on younger workers to fund the pensions of the growing ranks of oldsters.
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In addition to Wii, YouTube, that bastion of quirky, homemade videos aimed at hipsters, has become another place for oldsters to hang out.
For oldsters on a budget, there are places like Flushing House, a 319-unit independent living community at the end of the No. 7 line in Queens.
It has spent lavishly on transport, health care and education: Scottish university students pay less than English ones, and oldsters are cared for free of charge.
In addition, the monopolies that have protected many oldsters will take time to dismantle, even with the backing of the liberalising agreement negotiated by the World Trade Organisation earlier this year.
Buttonwood has been a fan of ultra-long bonds until now, warmed by the image of a generation of oldsters wandering off into the sunset clutching their perfectly tailored, income-generating, supercreditworthy bonds.
Yet the oldsters sometimes prevail, thanks to seasoned marksmen like Ralph Atkinson, a 77-year-old retired butcher from Melbourne, Australia, who fulfilled his national military service obligation more than a half century ago.
Short of flinging the oldsters to the sharks, there is no escaping the demographic trend that has fewer workers supporting more baby-boom retirees in most of the developed world (and part of the developing world).
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