If that doesn't sound huge, try compounding it for a working lifetime: 5% a year for 40 years gives you a 600% increment.
In Roman times only the very richest would have the ability to make such a journey: the average working lifetime simply did not contain enough income to finance such a journey.
This would thereby leave fewer less capable workers competing in the more demanding private sector, where they will inevitably be laid off more frequently, requiring repeated government support payments during their working lifetime.
Whereas schools used to be able to equip students with the knowledge and skills that would serve them for a working lifetime, this is no longer possible in a workplace characterized by continuous change in a competitive global environment.
The ship carried a wide variety of cargo during its working lifetime -- including the finest teas, wool and gunpowder -- and made frequent journeys between the UK and major trading ports in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australasia and the Americas.
Lord Archer, who had demanded a personal hearing, will be hard put to avoid expulsion from the party he has spent a lifetime working for.
Their pensions are frozen at the date when they first claimed them leaving some older people with just a few pounds a week despite a lifetime working and contributing to the UK National Insurance scheme.
Over his lifetime the number of working physicists steadily soared, eliminating the collegiality of his early working life.
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Working to age 80 will raise my lifetime Social Security benefits by 22 percent!
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The United States proudly honors John Sweeney for a lifetime of courageous service on behalf of working people.
But what I found remarkable, until I thought about it, was that working from 70 to 80 would generate an even larger increase in lifetime benefits.
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That would transform the highest tax most working people pay into a personal family wealth engine that over a lifetime of savings and investment would accumulate to close to a million dollars in real terms for two-earner average income families.
Mr. Pritchett tells the author that the average gain for a Bangladeshi from a lifetime of these loans is about the same as the earnings from working just eight weeks in America.
Earlier on, in response to a question by Labour's Graeme Morrice, the minister pointed out the NHS budget would increase in real terms during the lifetime of the Parliament, adding that the number of full-time equivalent clinical staff working in the NHS was higher today than in May 2010 and September 2009.
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"So, while we will keep working towards that date, we have set ourselves a more realistic target of achieving universal 2 Mbps access within the lifetime of this Parliament, " he added.
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