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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry, with agriculture, with our balance of payments. When we came back to power in 1980, we found the economy in very bad shape. We made investment decisions for future development, and I think they restored a sense of direction to the economy. The G.N.P. has gone up, per capita income has gone up, and we have increased irrigation, food output and petroleum production. But the more things go up, the more are wanted. You are simply not able to catch...
...millions of other Americans, for whom the product of the cacao bean is not so much a feast as a fix. Per capita consumption of chocolate in the U.S. last year was 9.1 Ibs.; some $3.4 billion was spent on chocolate products of all kinds. While Americans lag behind Austrians, Belgians, Norwegians, Germans and the league-leading Swiss, U.S. consumption of luxe chocolates (selling for up to $30 per Ib.) is growing steadily. From coast to coast, shamelessly fragrant new boutiques with names like Le Chocolat Elegant, Nutty Chocolatier and La Maison de Bon Bon are blooming...
Noting that the United States has 16 times more lawyers per capita than Japan, a leading Japanese businessman last night said that suspicion and excessive emphasis on cautious decisions id hampering business performance in this country...
...Commonwealth ranks 47th in the nation in appropriations per capita for higher education a study sponsored by the Massachusetts Higher Education Action Council and the state Board of Higher Education shows. The report released this week after two years of preparation, concludes that at a time when the Reagan Administration is proposing unprecedented reductions in federal support for education, it is crucial that Massachusetts provide funding for its students...
...January/February and March/April issues of the publication, criticize the current state aid distribution formulas. "The costs of providing basic local government services (e.g., police, fire, schools) do not vary in proportion to local tax resources, even as augmented with intergovernmental transfers. Thus cities and towns with smaller per capita tax bases would be forced to provide fewer or lower quality services to their residents," Ladd wrote...