As the team continues to grow, both in number of people and product maturity, the entropy also begins to increase.

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That's the average maturity of British government debt, the number of years that we as taxpayers have to pay off what we owe our creditors.

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But there are a number of bills hanging around Congress, at various stages of maturity, to control greenhouse-gas emissions.

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