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...production was reaching the stores, European wines, most notably Italian and lesser-known French vintages, came on the market in increasing volume and at sensible prices. Last year U.S. wine sales went as flat as morning-after champagne. Impact, a reliable industry newsletter, projects that per capita consumption of California wine will increase at the sluggish rate of .7% annually through...
...Koreas provide the best world example that it doesn't have to be this way, and that wise diplomacy now can correct the wrongs of four decades. Before 1945, Korea was an undisputed unit. But under the two systems of government progress has been vastly different. Per capita income is roughly 1.5 times larger in the South, and GNP is three times as great. GNP growth rate is twice as large for the South, and the North spends as much as 230 percent of its GNP for the military--vastly more than the South. With only half the population, North...
...older links between Israel and South Africa. A 1957 Commentary article. "The Jews of South Africa," estimated that 120,000 Jews, mostly from Lithuania, made up about 4 percent of all white South Africans. The article also called South African Jews "the wealthiest Jewish community in the world per capita, and one playing a part in the life of South Africa, and in the Zionist movement, quite out of proportion to its size...
Well, the Cuban economists, using U.N. data on rates of development during the 1970s, have draw up a chart with estimates of when the less-developed countries will achieve the 1980 per capita GNP level of the U.S., West Germany and other Western nations. At current rates, the lesser-developed countries will not reach the 1980 per capita GNP of the United States until the year 6007. They will not possess the 1980 wealth of West Germany until the year...
...been so rapid that a 500-shekel note today is worth less than a 50-shekel note was in 1980. The country's G.N.P is expected to grow only 2% this year, after stagnating in 1982. Foreign debt is, at $20.9 billion, one of the highest per capita in the world, and the trade deficit may exceed $5 billion this year. The U.S. General Accounting Office warned recently that a substantial portion of Washington's $2.5 billion in military and economic aid was being used to help Israel repay past debts. Without increased levels of assistance, Israel could...