Word: capita
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...stunningly fast game of jai alai, they are in fact among Spain's successful businessmen. The dingy but bustling Basque industrial center of Bilbao (pop. about 450,000) is heavily oriented toward steelmaking and shipbuilding. The three Basque provinces are among the richest in Spain on a per capita basis...
...cream industry ($1.6 billion in 1979) when sales of all kinds of desserts have dropped off by 40% over the past decade and a half. Ice-cream sales in the U.S. hit a peak in 1975 and since then have declined slightly (from 15.69 qt. per capita last year to 14.62 qt.), but sales of the most expensive and best-tasting brands have been increasing by about 17% a year and now command 11% of the market. Americans produced 829,798,000 gal. of ice cream in all grades last year, and we eat more of it than anybody else...
Both Pepsi and Coke have campaigned vigorously for the Thai market. Tropical thirsts have driven consumption of soft drinks there up to a strong 50 to 60 bottles per person per year, despite an annual per capita income of only $350. Although Coke's overall sales, including those of Sprite and Fanta, top Pepsi's total market share 46% to 34%, Coke alone has long trailed Pepsi by a wide margin...
...World Bank's lending funds, but the country's foreign aid programs have not kept up with inflation in recent years. In 1970 U.S. foreign aid was, by almost any measure, one of the most generous programs in the world. But, on a per capita basis, the U.S. now ranks only an embarrassing 15th among industrialized nations in foreign aid, just ahead of Italy. Thus, to Third World nations, loans from the World Bank are now more important than ever...
Little more than a year ago, West Germany was the confident powerhouse of Europe. Powerful it still is, and undoubtedly it will remain so, but the populous (61.3 million), rich (1980 per capita income: $12,400) and gifted nation that has so often been a victim of its own excesses is now gripped by a uniquely Teutonic mood of Angst, an attitude that in some respects is not "far removed from a crisis of confidence," in the words of Karl Otto Pohl, president of West Germany's central bank. And nowhere are the effects of that mood more evident...