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1. -12-04-05 Kazakhstan Exit Polls: Nazarbayev Leading (USA Today)
   "Oil-rich Kazakhstan voted Sunday in a presidential election widely expected to give Nursultan Nazarbayev another seven-year term leading the most prosperous country in Central Asia."
   
   "Four exit polls released after voting ended showed that Nazarbayev was re-elected by an overwhelming margin. The largest poll, surveying some 300,000 people, found him winning 86.9% of the vote."
   
   "That poll was conducted nationwide by the Association of Sociologists and Political Analysts, an independent group." 12-05

2. -01-26-09 Japanese Workers Urged to Go Home Early (CNN News)
   "In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more babies."
   
   "Japan in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another major problem: the country's low birthrate."
   
   "At 1.34, the birthrate is well below the 2.0 needed to maintain Japan's population, according to the country's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare."
   
   "Analysts say the world's second-largest economy faces its greatest threat from its own social problems, rather than outside forces. And the country desperately needs to make some fixes to its current social and work structures, sociologists say." 01-09