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    Silver hair market in Japan? Good quality of (whose) life with silver-to-black consumption?

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    Japanese Society (Silver Market?): Exceptionalism in Socio-Economic Sense? What You See is Not What it is in Japan! This question was my Japanese colleagues and informants confronting me, and I concur with them as I completing this brief…. Perhaps this synopsis could help to realize the limited understanding of we have on another Asia society (despite frequent travels and information exchange in the mobile-Internet age), par­ticularly the enigma about Japanese society’s traditionalism embedded into its supra-modernization trajectories of socio-economic development since 1868! 日本社会(银发市场?):社会经济的例外主义? 你所见的并不是真实的日本!这是我提出这问题时,我的日本同事跟消息提供者对我的反驳,而我完成这篇概论后也认同他们的理据……也许这篇概论能帮助我们意识到自己对另一个亚洲社会的认知是如此有限(即使我们经常到日本旅游,而且又身处这信息交流发达的年代),特别是自1868年起,深嵌于社会经济发展超现代化进程中的日本传统主义,对我们来说真的有如谜一样

    Presidential Succession Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 108th Congress

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    Examines the need for changes to the Presidential Succession Act which governs the transfer of power in the event that there is a simultaneous vacancy in the office of the presidency and the vice presidency.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_congressional_materials/1001/thumbnail.jp

    Present Law and Analysis Relating to Individual Retirement Arrangements

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    [Excerpt] The House Committee on Ways and Means, Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee, has scheduled a public hearing to take place on June 26, 2008, on the role of individual retirement arrangements (“IRAs”) in our retirement system. The hearing is scheduled to focus on the recently issued report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), entitled “Individual Retirement Accounts, Government Actions Could Encourage More Employers to Offer IRAs to Employees,” June 2008; the role of IRAs in our retirement system; and legislative proposals for automatic IRA enrollment. This document,1 prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, includes a description of present law and analysis relating to IRAs

    DR-CAFTA and Worker’s Rights: Moving from Paper to Practice

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    This study analyses the “White Paper” projects and initiatives taken by the US government to improve labor rights practice in DR-CAFTA countries. Based on a three year study, WOLA has concluded that U.S. funding for projects to strengthen the enjoyment and enforcement of labor rights in the DR-CAFTA countries is insufficient to address institutional weakness and pervasive impunity. In this report WOLA defines labor law reforms needed in the six participating countries and recommends implementation methods
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