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...late to shower, and so I grabbed my Union Pacific Railroad cap to cover my greases). I even got wasted once by Henry Rosovsky in front of 700 people in "Japan" class. (He asked for an example of a country with a very low level of per-capita income; I said "Kuwait" because I for some reason thought I heard him say very high level of per-capita income. I can still hear exactly how he snorted, through the microphone of Science Center B, "Hah, Kuwait...
...majority, it is a good thing. When it keeps voters away from the polls or prevents them from taking action against flaws in the system, it is obviously a detriment. Unfortunately, America is subject to both kinds of apathy. While there are probably fewer terrorist groups per capita than in most other countries, there are also lower voter turnouts at elections...
...beyond American control. Take Haiti. It may be possible to bring about a lessening of corruption and brutality. But no amount of American intervention will soon turn that country into a democracy, since politically it is starting from scratch, with a literacy rate of 30% and an annual per capita income...
Recent years have not been kind to cattle ranchers. Partly because of growing health questions about the advisability of eating an abundance of red meat, per capita annual beef consumption fell from 94.4 lbs. in 1976 to 79 lbs. in 1985. As the price that cattlemen received for choice steers dipped, ranchers trimmed the size of their herds, from 50 million head in 1982 to some 45 million now. To help firm up prices, they were planning to cut an additional million head this year...
...Southeast Asia," an unflattering but all-too-accurate reference to the economic wasteland she has inherited. The Philippines' foreign debt exceeds $27 billion. The annual interest payment alone--about $1.7 billion--amounts to a third of export earnings. In 1985 the growth rate plunged to negative 3.5%, while per capita income declined to about $600 a year, no higher in real terms than it was in 1972. Almost half of the nation's 21 million workers are unemployed at least part of the year. One of the priorities of the new government will be to provide more jobs...