But what about the elderly and the problem of age-related decline?
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This is not a problem that can be solved by industrial-age collective action models because the problem is the end of the industrial age.
Only a third of this group (125 children) still had a problem at the age of 10.
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Part of the problem is his age--he found that employers preferred younger workers, even teenagers, because they could pay them less.
Areas which have been particularly badly hit include those parts of the country where unemployment has traditionally been a problem for all age groups, such as north and south Wales, Northern Ireland, and urban areas including Liverpool and Birmingham.
Age can be a problem if you're trying to get the most value for the dollar, because veterans make a lot of money, but age really isn't a problem on the field.
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That means the Yankees are faced with the age old problem that they and so many other teams have historically succumbed to: watching a player put up his best years in his 20s, and then paying him huge money afterward as his production declines.
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And with a substantial number of England's working midwives soon reaching retirement age, the problem could intensify, it says.
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It's one of a new wave of groups tackling an age-old problem.
But an age-old problem in the bee world a periodic and unpredictable dramatic rise in bee deaths in one region or another reemerged in 2004.
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It is unfortunate that the perception that age is a problem can undermine the value gained through having had more experience in reacting to crisis and change.
"Young people looking for an exciting challenge that could lead to danger is an age-old problem, " says John Armato, 64, community relations director for the Pottstown School District.
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It's an age-old problem: do we clamor for a company to ship a product that's not ready, or do we swallow delays with grace as it aims to deliver when things are good and ready?
The game is crying out for stability, and the experienced guys know the job, and for so many now age is not a problem.
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By showing how the problem varies across different occupations, age groups and regions, the ONS has told us a lot of interesting things that we didn't know.
Ad Age suggests part of the problem was that Nike focused on what Woods had done wrong instead of on any specific Nike products.
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Let inventiveness again lead the country to new plateaus of high growth and to new solutions for the problem of bringing everyone into the Internet age.
Fortunately they will be in much healthier environments, because every intelligent adult knows that underage drinking is a bigger problem in public businesses that carefully monitor age and identification than random private locations.
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And yet a fixation on age risks missing a more serious problem facing Europe.
"People think that in this day and age we've got this problem covered, " said Stephen Lowry of the University of Kent.
It's the 3-D-like Rubik's 360, and it's probably good for brains of any age, because it sharpens flexible problem-solving skills, says neuropsychologist Karen Spangenberg Postal, Ph.
McEnroe said he understands the concerns, but he sees a larger problem: Fewer than 14, 000 kids age 10-and-under competed in tournaments in America last year, and many of the best played up to the 12s.
Mr. Piasecki says his daughters, age 12 and 17, have no problem grasping Queue's convoluted rules.
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And Vivek Nair, age 23, is solving a big problem with carbon emissions through his company, Damascus Fortune.
Lord Sheldon described the age of criminal responsibility as a "problem" when it came to avoiding unnecessary sentencing of young offenders.
Your age and compensation demands are a big problem.
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Finland, which has no such windfall, has confronted its pensions problem by, among other things, raising the retirement age.
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