The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association are soliciting opinions about the criteria online and hope that there's enough input to publish them in early 2011, Carrillo said.

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Firms will, equally, be hard pressed to raise prices enough to recover their higher input bills.

ECONOMIST: The economy

Taking out demographic factors like covered plan employees living longer after retirement and just looking at overly optimistic economic input assumptions on portfolio returns should be sobering enough.

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