Word: capita
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...struggling to emerge. The problem for outsiders is to square what sometimes appears to be a Persian lamb with a notably lion-like personality. The superficial prosperity of Tehran is illusory. Because of war and runaway population growth -- estimated at 3.6% a year, though that may be declining -- per capita economic output has shrunk about 40% since 1979. Many factories are running at only 40% to 50% of capacity...
...along with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong -- Singapore is the smallest and in some ways the most successful. The former British colony at the tip of the Malay Peninsula only achieved full independence in 1965, yet it boasts Asia's highest living standard after Japan, an average per capita income of $15,000 (about the same as the U.S.) and by far the world's highest per capita cache of foreign reserves...
Neighborhood 10, the Brattle Street area, had a per capita income of $41,998 while two of the city's poorest neighborhood's, Area Four and Riverside, each had per capita incomes of about...
Overall, while Cambridge's per capita income grew 34.8 percent, income growth in East Cambridge was 84.4 percent...
Moreover, these individuals may well use, for two reasons, more health services per capita than those currently insured. First, it's safe to assume that the 33 million uninsured are among America's poorest citizens. As a result, their living conditions and, for those who are employed, their working conditions are more likely to be substandard. In addition, uninsured Americans can't afford preventative medicine, and consequently a new system must devote disproportionate amount of resources to remedy conditions that have gone untreated for years. Second, cost-sharing by the currently uninsured may be impossible--again because these...