Men have always been very good at grey: hair, suits and, ultimately, old-age personality.
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Six days later, the Supreme Court upheld the old-age-insurance provisions of the Social Security Act.
But by 2050, China's old-age ratio will have risen fourfold to 42, surpassing America's.
But the premise of this agreement is measures to hold down ballooning old-age pension, medical, and nursing care costs.
Boys inherit the family name and land, and provide an old-age insurance policy.
We're heading for a showdown between the recipients of old-age benefits, and recipients of all the other kinds of benefits.
In fact, only about one-tenth of the increase is due to upticks in old-age pensions and health-care programs for seniors.
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That means China's old-age dependency ratio (which compares the number of people over 65 with those aged 15 to 64) will soar.
In Germany , the Constitutional Court decided that workers with children could be allowed to contribute less towards old-age support than childless ones.
Opinion polls suggest that only about a fifth of Serbia's voters, many of them old-age pensioners, want to keep Mr Milosevic in charge.
Leaders of Christian missions, which run 16, 500 schools as well as 6, 500 hospitals, orphanages and old-age homes, wearily shake their heads at the charges.
Congress rejected this 1937 proposal and turned against further New Deal measures, but not before the Social Security Act creating old-age pensions went into effect.
In Moscow old-age pensioners carry a chip-based smart card from Visa that acts as a subway pass and id card and affords them discounts at pharmacies.
After all it was that arch-reactionary, Otto von Bismarck, who introduced the world's first welfare system, including the old-age pension, in Germany in the 1860s.
Congress began trying to provide old-age insurance for something close to 100% of the population as early as 1939, before the first Social Security benefits were paid.
In continental Europe, governments provide nearly 80% of old-age incomes.
It has stabilised the economy, built a million houses, brought water and electricity to many who lacked it before, and provided a safety-net for many poor families through old-age pensions.
It is a striking thing to note that well over 60% of the beneficiaries in this program, which so often is misunderstood as only on old-age benefit system, are women and children.
Moreover aspects such as mutual care within traditional gender roles and bringing up children as a form of old-age insurance had huge practical importance and were much more important than romantic love.
Italian governments have tinkered with the pensions system on three occasions, but have shrunk from the drastic overhaul that is needed to save Italy's greying population from old-age penury in the generation ahead.
Within the next four decades, most of the developed countries in East Asia, as well as Europe, will become veritable old-age homes: A third or more of their populations will be over 65.
Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke's old-age love story "Amour" won for best international film, a possible prelude to the Oscars, where his film is the favorite to win the foreign-language prize and is nominated for best picture.
In 1975 -- by no coincidence the first year that benefits were indexed to inflation -- Social Security's pension fund, whose formal title is Old-Age and Survivors Insurace (OASI), paid out more than it took in.
Although Italian men must wait until 65 before they officially qualify for an old-age pension from the state, those who have got 35 years of contributions under their belts can retire and draw state pensions when they are 57.
I'm still very hungry - even at my old age - to keep playing and keep performing at the highest level.
Then there is Medifund, a safety-net program for the bottom 10 percent of income earners, and Eldershield, a private insurance program for long-term care for those with old age-related disabilities.
By thinking that the resulting pension pot is ours alone--and that the cash value recorded within it will be enough to keep us in old age--we've ignored the fact that we have to actually invest in those real things we can sell to the next generation.
If we bring some of our age-old, time-tested ways of interacting into this new age, we can have the best of both worlds: strong, resilient teams whose members live and work all over the planet.
The high levels of gender violence which persist in India, activists say, are mainly down to deeply-rooted, age-old discriminatory beliefs.
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