Word: capita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insurance causes death, many of them do feel that it defies and tempts the gods. For many Indians, furthermore, land seems the only smart investment, and attempts to sell them insurance are repulsed as schemes to snatch their money. There is, of course, little enough of that; the per capita income in India is only $69 a year, and people are so busy trying to keep alive that they have little time to worry about death...
...ship might also point the way to the solution of a growing national problem, since 70 per cent of the major urban communities in the United States border the ocean or the Great Lakes. According to Silverman, the per capita production of garbage has risen in recent years from two or four pounds a day, while it has become increasingly difficult to find suitable locations for incinerators and dumps...
...state, Alabama came to know the darkest sort of poverty and to experience the bitterness and hatred that such poverty can inspire. Even today, Alabama rates 47th among the states in per capita income ($1,538), leading only Arkansas, South Carolina and Mississippi. And, at a time when George Wallace is inveighing against the Federal Government in the name of states' rights, the extent to which Alabama depends on economic help from the Government is an immense irony...
...Turkey will be by far the Market's poorest sister. Two-thirds of its 30 million people are illiterate, more than 10% of its work force is unemployed, and per capita income averages $200. Foreign trade, which swings around agriculture, is in chronic deficit. This year Turkey will export $370 million-mostly in aromatic tobacco, cotton, hazelnuts, sultana raisins and Smyrna figs-but its imports will amount to $640 million, largely in machinery. With its population growing by 1,000,000 a year, while its capital markets remain skeleton-thin because of a lack of personal savings, Turkey sorely...
...beer-bibbing Belgians, whose per-capita inflow of 34.3 gallons is the world's highest, who put a foamy head on a disheartening summer. They scheduled a National Beer Festival at the Château de Fraiture in Liège province, but before the guzzling could even get started, the chateau burned down, lock, stock and beer barrels...