First, it was nothing to do with a long-lived woman having had more offspring in the first place, and the number of her grandchildren thus merely being a function of the number of her children.

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Getting up to 5% over the next decade thus seems not merely ambitious, but almost unthinkable.

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If flat screens fall in price, the latter merely boosts demand for other goods thus driving up their prices.

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