Word: capita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparison with other East bloc nations, Polish life was seemingly not all that bad. The average wage ($200 a month) and per capita meat consumption (152 lbs. a year) were surpassed only in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Private hard-currency bank accounts were legal, passports were relatively easy to obtain and the state provided the usual panoply of Communist benefits: guaranteed jobs, free medical care, factory-sponsored vacations. But this was not enough. Poles were tired of standing in endless lines: for meat, flour, sugar and other staples. They were tired of shoddy, overpriced goods, when they could...
...most effective campaign tactic was during the debate with President Carter when he looked at the television camera and asked the American people: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The answer was mostly no. Last year alone, the average real disposable income per capita fell an estimated...
...West Germany has the largest number, 850. Sweden has 600, the most per capita in the world, and Sweden's ASEA is the world's third largest manufacturer of robots (after Unimation and Kawasaki). Italy has 500, France 200, the Soviet Union...
...members' wages are paid by taxes would sponsor a tax-cutting measure. In fact, it sounds downright fishy. But that's what Question 3 on tomorrow's ballot--sponsored by the Massachusetts Teachers Association--would technically do: limit state and local tax increases to the rate of annual per capita growth in income. It would also shift the state's share of the tab for local education from 30 to 50 per cent...
...which heavily influences how the Government will spend its half-trillion dollars a year. He is also the ranking Democrat on the Budget and Commerce committees. In effect, he only needs to nod to have federal money steered toward his constituents. Boasts he: "Washington gets more federal money per capita [$1,850] than any state in the union." Everywhere there are signs of "Maggie's" vast power: $951 million of relief for the victims of Mount St. Helens' eruptions, $5.7 billion in hydroelectric projects on the Columbia River, including the $1.5 billion Grand Coulee Dam complex. Federal grants...