But do the elderly really get such a rough deal?The main chunk of public money spent on old people's health is Medicare, which cost $281 billion 2.6% of GDP in 2003.
On September 26th the Israeli government's partial freeze on building or expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the main chunk of a would-be Palestinian state, is due to lapse.
"YOU don't know what you've lost, till it's gone," runs a popular Arabic proverb, but it was particularly prevalent on lips across the West Bank after Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) which runs the main chunk of a future Palestinian state, accepted the resignation of his prime minister, Salam Fayyad, on April 13th.
Although rockets from Gaza have killed around 30 Israelis since 2004, Israel has been fairly free of suicide-bombers, thanks in part to the barrier that bites into the West Bank, the main chunk of a would-be Palestinian state, and protects the Jewish settlements that continue to expand despite their illegality in international law.
Each person gets an individual bone if desired (I cut the removed rack into seven bones), and each person can have a prime rib slice off the main chunk that's at any desired thickness.
The main chunk of the book, In A Free State, meanwhile, is a flawed masterpiece.
Russian officials said that they had already found where the main chunk of the meteorite had fallen, on the outskirts the city.
When the main chunk gets too big for one data center it has to move the whole thing to another that's been expanded to fit it.
Walnuts and chunks of creamy blue cheese would turn this into a main course.
We ate sharp, salty chunks of pickled herring to start, washed down with tentative sips of vodka, before a main of smoked salmon, caviar and blini.
