Fries notes that Japan's population is flat and aging--a combination that's hardly a recipe for organic growth.
All are advanced industrial societies with a large middle class, an aging population and an Anglo-Saxon legal tradition.
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This disappearance of people with an E-4 gene from the aging population is a "remarkable finding, " say the University of Helsinki scientists who did the study.
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To Gursahaney what he saw tucked deep inside giant Tyco was the perfect business for the post 9-11 environment: an aging population in an increasingly unsafe world and a highly fragmented home security business that ADT already dominated.
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And it's timely -- we're seeing an epidemic of age-related macular degeneration with our aging population.
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Health-care jobs catering to the aging population are also growing.
But the long-run trends, caused by an aging population and rising health care costs are unmistakable.
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Bankers have been growing wary of nursing-home operators despite the aging of the American population.
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Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
Examples: China's exchange-rate policy (June 2005), education (March 2004), the nation's natural-gas supply (twice--in June 2003 and again the next month), the aging global population (also 2003), U.S. trade policy (April 2001) and commodity futures trading (June 2000).
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency overseeing the programs, has warned that between 2015 and 2021, health spending is set to grow at an average annual rate of 6.2% as a result of the aging of the population, expansion of access to care under the federal health-care law, and an improvement in economic conditions.
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