Regrettably, the teen-age population is not exempt from this troublesome attitude problem.

The teen-age population, and its buying power, is expected to increase until at least 2010, as young children of baby boomers grow up.

The decline in the teen-age population is the chief cause of the shortage.

And the teen-age population is expected to peak at 35 million in 2010.

They make up the bulk of the teen-age population.

As the baby boomers' children mature, the country's teen-age population is exploding.

Population data project that the nation's teen-age population will soar to more than 42 million by 2010 from 38.2 million last year.

The teen-age population is projected to grow until 2010, when it will peak at more than 30 million.

In the next decade the nation's teen-age population will increase sharply, perhaps by 20 percent.

He said the law will exacerbate a labor shortage already felt by restaurants because of a drop in the teen-age population.