German births decline to new low
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Germany sees another decline in its birth rate, which is the lowest in Europe.
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Germany sees a drop in beer sales during the third quarter of 2007 after poor summer weather, according to official figures.
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Number of divorces down in England and Wales.
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Business & money: Wage growth in the public sector slows to lowest level in nine years.
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Germany&#39;s recovery slowed in the third quarter as exports slipped, with the economy growing by 0.1 percent from the previous three months, according to government figures released Thursday.
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The number of people out of work in Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, declined in August, but solely as a result of seasonal factors, official data showed.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census.
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Local election results in Germany&#39;s most populous state indicate another setback for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder - but the decline has slowed.
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Germany's jobless rate falls to a 14-year low, despite the high euro and muted consumer confidence.
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The U.S. abortion rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1976, with about 20 percent of pregnancies being terminated by abortion, the nonprofit Alan Guttmacher Institute reported on Thursday.
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A falling birth rate and an aging population have prompted Germany's female leaders to shake up the nation's old-fashioned family policies.
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The current economic boom in Germany enabled Europe&#39;s biggest economy to hold its jobless rate at the lowest level for six years this month, data showed on Thursday.
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The former East Germany is being drained of young women, leaving disillusioned young men behind, a study says.
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Germany's parliament has cleared the way for the first census in decades. The tally isn't expected to provoke storms of protest as it did in the past.But it could show that there are fewer people in the country. The census will begin in 2011, the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, decided on Thursday, Sept. 21.
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German fathers are staying home with their newborn babies in unexpectedly high numbers in the first year of a generous government subsidy meant to boost the country's low birth rate, officials said on Friday.
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THE number of manufacturing jobs has been steadily declining in Germany. That trend could continue thanks to porous borders to the east, according to a poll by consultant AT Kearney.
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Business confidence in Germany, Europe&#39;s largest economy, probably declined to a four-month low in October amid signs that both export orders and consumer spending are slowing, a survey of economists showed.