Over the long term, higher productivity growth and better-functioning labour markets are vital if economies in southern Europe are to regain the competitive ground they lost in the first decade of monetary union, when their unit labour costs soared relative to those in northern countries like Germany.
Sydney was 25% cheaper to live in than New York a decade ago, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Growth has been dismal over the past decade (Mr Berlusconi was an economic calamity) and unit labour costs have risen sharply.
There have been more than 1, 800 deaths in United Lincolnshire Hospitals than expected in the past decade, according to the government's Dr Foster research unit.
In fact, Ford is so bullish on China that it expects 40% of the unit sales to come from the country by the end of the decade.
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Steelcase's Turnstone unit, which has been doing stand-up meetings for about a decade, for years played Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire, " to begin meetings.
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Made up of Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa -- these nations, some with sizable populations and others with a wealth of natural resources, could be the economic boomers of the next decade, according to John Bowler, director of Country Risk Service at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
And not just in America: in Germany, where the long years of low birth rates will reduce the size of the pool over the coming decade, Kienbaum, the country's leading pay consultancy, recently set up a special unit to comb academe for youthful high-fliers.
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The consumer-protection unit of the state attorney general's office received just two complaints about locksmiths in more than a decade one in 2006, the year before the law took effect, and one in 2008, the year after, according to Tom Bates, who runs the division.
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