Word: capita
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...boom is bigger, however, than just one bank. In the past decade the state's population increased by just 25,000 (to 690,000), but the number of nonagricultural jobs has grown by 60,000. South Dakota ranked third in the nation in per capita income growth...
...Some say he liked her pasta more. In any case, the Italians lost a daughter but not a dish. They have remained, to this day, among the world's supreme ice cream makers. Americans, who are the world's supreme ice cream gulpers (15 quarts per capita per annum), are only now beginning to make that luscious discovery en masse. In the heat-racked summer of '83, people are screaming for all kinds of ice cream, including one innovation that isn't ice cream at all. But the loudest, longest cries are for gelato...
...John Capita Charleston...
...rebuild the country to the point where it would become "the Switzerland of Asia." Today, Japan is the second most powerful economy in the free world. Its trillion-dollar-a-year industrial machine accounts for 10% of the world's output. By 1990, the Japanese may achieve a per capita gross national product that surpasses that of the U.S. As a 19th century French tourist said of another island people, the English: "Mon Dieu, comme ils travaillent...
Brazil has a long way to go before recovering its economic health. Buffeted by the global recession, the country has been suffering for two years. Since 1980, the per capita gross national product has declined by 4.4%. In the first quarter of this year, retail sales dropped by 13.3% in Rio de Janeiro and 10.3% in São Paulo. Factories that produce construction equipment and other capital goods are operating at only 20% of capacity, and 8.5% of the country's workers have been laid off. Of the entire working-age population, 40% is either unemployed or working...