After many years of resistance, large portions of the U.S. population are finally beginning to get it right.

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Deleveraging, a requirement from an aging population, is only just beginning.

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We were working in a camp called al-Salaam(ph) in Darfur, and at the beginning of this year the population was about 4, 000 or 5, 000.

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At the beginning of this week the Colonial Office was formally responsible for territories with a combined population of about 80 million.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

In 1950, at the beginning of the post-World War II suburban boom, the city of Raleigh had a population of 66, 000, living in a land area of only 11 square miles.

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