Word: capita
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...author maintained that this renaissance is also occurring in Japan, a country in which "Megatrends" has sold more copies per capita than in the U.S., and which is experiencing a resurgence of interest in traditional tea ceremonies, flower arranging, and spirituality...
...California's vintners is the general stagnation in U.S. wine sales. Says Ann Clurman, a social-trends researcher for Yankelovich, Skelly & somewhat." White: The fetish "Wine for has lost fitness, its along status with increased minimum drinking ages and stiffer drunk-driving laws, has stalled U.S. adult per capita wine consumption at about 2.2 gal. annually...
...terms of the treaty, its successors could easily reverse or rewrite it. China has proved to be singularly unpredictable in years past, with its violent and frequent pendulum swings from left to right. Clearly, the Communist nation has much to gain from protecting its capitalist jewel: the per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong is 18 times that of China, and already the 400-sq.-mile colony supplies its colossal neighbor with up to 40% of its entire foreign-exchange earnings. Even those practical considerations, however, could be swept aside during a leftist backlash. In that event, noted...
...further fallacy is the assumption that the greater the population, the lower the standard of living. This is not true. Japan has a population density of 829 people per sq. mi., yet has a higher per capita gross national product ($10,080) than India, which has 577 people...
Located on the southern edge of the Sahara, it is one of the poorest countries in Africa, with a per capita income of $210 a year. Its 6.7 million people have been suffering from recurring drought that has caused widespread hardship and political instability. This month Upper Volta shed the name that the French bequeathed along with independence 24 years ago. President Thomas Sankara, 34, who seized power last year, decreed that his country would hence forth be known as Burkina Faso...