• The golden age was never the present age.

    FORBES: Thoughts On the Business of Life

  • It is not easy to pin down exact dates in a hazy age, but Western historians are probably right in marking off the period 1500 to the present as the age of European global predominance.

    CNN: Building On A Golden Age

  • The handbook asks migrants to learn a potted history of Britain from the Stone Age to the present day.

    NPR: History, Culture, Humor On New UK Citizenship Test

  • Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.

    FORBES: The Weekly E-Book Reading List

  • William Frey, a researcher with the Brookings Institution, which has kept detailed records and analysis of the city's population since the storm, said his analysis of 2006 census data released this month shows that those in the 25- to 35-year-old age range were least likely to be present in the city by July of last year.

    CNN: New Orleans' new arrivals: Young, educated and infused with hope

  • But several commentators on Monday saw the move as Buffett running out of ideas, losing his ever-present optimism and, at age 81, heading for the exits.

    FORBES: Connect

  • He thinks that the Pacific Ocean could become for present-day Russia what the Baltic Sea was for the country in the age of Peter the Great: a source of wealth and a gate to modernity.

    ECONOMIST: Russia��s Far East

  • The present recession, the first major one in the age of globalization as we know it today, be even more tragic if that vision is set aside just when parts of the developing world are not just about catch up and but are about to spring into the lead, economically speaking.

    FORBES: We Shouldn't 'Hire American'

  • Moreover, the age-based decline in entrepreneurial plans is present even after accounting for whether or not entrepreneurship classes are offered.

    FORBES: Kids Lose Interest in Entrepreneurship as They Get Older

  • Personal branding is the name of the game these days, and in our age of radical transparency it is informed not just by how you present yourself but also by the people you associate with.

    FORBES: You Are the Company You Keep

  • College students who are currently over the age of 18 can take advantage of the present law by selling appreciated stock and mutual fund holdings before the end of the year and realizing those capital gains on their 2007 tax return.

    FORBES: The New Kiddie Tax

  • These suggest that a population of stars that invaded the Milky Way when it was only a third of its present age can still be recognised.

    ECONOMIST: Stellar origins

  • Though Dickey is likely to profit from his 2012 performance, his earnings potential through additional endorsement and memorabilia income is likely limited because of his age and the insignificance of the Mets franchise at present.

    FORBES: Dickey's Cy Young Victory Boosts Endorsement, Memorabilia Earnings Potential

  • Is there something disconcerting about living in an age in which nostalgia for the past so dominates the present that we can almost feel nostalgic about our culture as it happens?

    NPR: Moby Checks in with 'Hotel'

  • Capt Alex Bidulph, who was present when the guns were fired, said he was surprised at the age of the shell.

    BBC: Kent sapper Mark Smith 'killed by 29-year-old shell'

  • "A lot of women are scared of aging so I wanted to present images of women who feel better as they age, " the 30-year-old photojournalist said.

    CNN: Aging stylishly, online and in the streets

  • At present, employers can get rid of older workers once they reach the mandatory retirement age without fear of legal redress.

    ECONOMIST: Age discrimination

  • At present, only eleven people over 50 years of age remain who have mastered the whole set of techniques.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • Only in old age did he start to speak out, not least to try to influence the present.

    ECONOMIST: Marek Edelman

  • At present, about one in five pupils do not reach the expected level for English at the age of 11.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Struggling pupils get extra help

  • Mr Romney, by contrast, has advocated raising the retirement age and indexing benefits for richer recipients, using a less generous formula than at present.

    ECONOMIST: Taxes, spending and the deficit

  • The sites were easy to use, with navigation arranged by categories, by age groups, and by types of products - making it easier to select the right present.

    BBC: Hamleys

  • "This is just the first study which was focused on the idea that men of a certain age view sex as a highly desirable goal, and if you present them with a provocative woman, then that will tend to prime goal-related responses, " she told CNN.

    CNN: Men see bikini-clad women as objects, psychologists say

  • The Secretary of State does not regard Senator Pinochet's age as being in itself a sufficient basis for his present decision.

    BBC: Straw's statement in full

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