Word: capita
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Oblivious to Need. Some sad statistics tell the need: New Jersey has the eighth highest per capita income in the U.S.; yet it ranks 48th in its per capita support of higher education, ahead of only Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. While most states send only about 20% of their students to colleges in other states, New Jersey exports 55% of its high school graduates-leading educators to dub New Jersey "The Cuckoo State," after the bird that plants its eggs in other nests to hatch...
...underdeveloped areas have flourished as dramatically as Puerto Rico, where the tax incentives and government-built facilities under Operation Bootstrap have attracted 600 companies, created 65,000 jobs and raised per capita income from $121 to $900 a year. Bootstrap, however, has lured mostly light manufacturing. To keep its economy growing at the current 8% rate, the island needs heavy industry...
...most difficult thing is to convince the patients that the tragic defects in their appearance do not demand medical attention." Just in case they do, however, the institute's plastic surgery department will offer a complete line of nose bobs at a flat rate of 50 rubles per capita...
...relevant topics, notably Northern Ireland's chronic economic problem. O'Neill pointed proudly to the many foreign firms that he has lured to Northern Ireland, to a declining unemployment rate, to a diversifying economy no longer solely dependent on shipbuilding and weaving, and to an annual per-capita income that has risen from $779 to $980 in the 3½ years since he succeeded aging Lord Brookeborough as Prime Minister...
With only 2,800 bank branches (one for every 11,000 inhabitants), Spain lags behind most of Western Europe. The annual income of only $490 per capita has created little need for bank accounts. As Spain prospers, however, real income is expected to increase at least 50% in the next decade. The growth prospects have already attracted several American banks into joint ventures with Spanish banks. First National City Bank and Bank of America, for example, have set up respective fifty-fifty arrangements with the Banco de Vizcaya and the Banco de Santander...