It's no wonder that stepping on to one is like entering an A&E ward: bright orange handrails everywhere, fluorescent strip lighting, baby blue flooring and a fibreglass interior that erupts into mysterious bulges in awkward places.
His briefcase bulges with the incessant output of the business-books division that every struggling publisher has now set up.
These places have long been regarded as demographic time-bombs, with youth bulges, poverty and low levels of education and health.
But changes have been painfully slow.The need for reform will become more pressing as the elderly proportion of those classified as migrant workers bulges.
Pressure to free merchandise trade is seen as benefiting Australia and New Zealand, which run big trade surpluses with the rest of the region, rather than the small island states that trade little with each other.For the poorer countries of Melanesia, where bulges in the populations of young people threaten social unrest, the freer movement of labour is more enticing.
By the mid-1930s, "bathing costumes" designed to conceal curves and bulges were giving way to "swimsuits" designed for practicality or even, excitingly, to showcase the body.But as sexual taboos were breaking down, another set was growing, conflating prudishness, paranoia and straight racism.
Jobs would be created for all the young people who will reach working age in the coming decades, one of the biggest, and potentially scariest, demographic bulges the world has seen.But now, after a slump in the currency, a drying up of private investment and those GDP figures, the miracle feels like a mirage.
As birth rates decline, the proportion of children shrinks and the working-age population bulges, as is happening now in Africa.
For example, the assumption that there is a shortage of high-powered 35- to 44-year-olds seems odd, given that this age bracket represents one of the biggest post-war demographic bulges in both Britain and America.Nonetheless, the article provides a useful framework to help managers assess their strategies, in the form of 13 questions (or "dimensions").
But in general Dixon of Dock Green (the cuddly copper in a defunct but loved television series) is not meant to kick in doors brandishing semi-automatic weapons; outside Northern Ireland, even bulges on belts are rarely seen.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukA PATIENT observer of his sitters' slumps and bulges, Lucian Freud prefers not to subject himself to scrutiny.
