• But there is also economic sense to it, as opening these top positions up to the other half of the population will mean an even more talented slate of candidates to choose from, making sure the best and brightest are better and brighter.

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  • Separately, China plans to strip power from the agency overseeing its one-child policy, which could mean the eventual phaseout of the population-control effort.

    WSJ: What's News

  • It would mean by 2050, Britain would have a population of nearly 72.4 million - overtaking Germany, whose population is projected to fall sharply over the period, as Europe's largest country.

    BBC: Britain 'biggest in EU by 2050'

  • Here, the heroine of the previous films, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), crash-lands on a godforsaken planet whose population consists of a couple of dozen mean-looking convicts running some sort of dilapidated foundry.

    NEWYORKER: Alien 3

  • The population does mean you get a more precise estimate of BMI simply by averaging over large numbers.

    BBC: BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?

  • If you start smo .... I mean smoking's gone down twenty two per cent of the population now, a further two per cent reduction.

    BBC: Rocky times

  • Cholesterol UK said if that pattern was repeated among the UK population of 40 million adults, that would mean 12 million people did the same.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Cholesterol confusion revealed

  • Primary and preventative health care alternatives are often inadequate or inaccessible to a population where even an hour of missed income can mean the difference between food on the table or not.

    FORBES: The Phone Booth: A Portal To Good Health And Good Fortune In Mexico City's Slums

  • In a meritocracy the Lords would increasingly come to represent a random sample of the population over the generations, as regression to the mean moves all to the average.

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  • This would mean that, among the top 25 most followed accounts, we have a more active population of followers, as only 30% are reported inactive.

    FORBES: Twitter's Growing Spam Problem

  • By that I mean that in Kenya, the largest group, the Kikuyu, make up about 15 percent of the population.

    NPR: Tribalism and Stability in Kenya

  • Yes, today nearly 90% of the U.S. population has a wireless device, but that does not mean we are anywhere near saturation since we will all be carrying multiple devices for different tasks.

    FORBES: More Broadband Spectrum: Who Benefits?

  • Asking them, along with the rest of the developing world, to go back to 2000 emission levels with a 2050 population would mean putting them on a very drastic energy diet.

    FORBES: Uncommon Sense

  • National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.

    FORBES: Trade and China

  • An aging population and rising health-care costs mean that spending will rise again and imply a larger size of government than we have ever had but with all the growth coming from entitlements while projected federal revenues as a percentage of GDP after the rate cuts of the 2000s will likely remain below even historic levels of 18%.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The rotten economic news over the summer and the deepening euro-zone mess mean it is easy to forget that countries that now account for half the world's output and most of its population are doing rather well.

    ECONOMIST: The world economy

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