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...have come back with cash are spending it freely. Gossipmongers say that the local bank has recently changed as much as $40,000 to pesos in a single two-hour period. One beneficiary of the windfall is the telephone company. Residents boast that they make the highest per capita number of international phone calls in Mexico. Almost all are to the U.S. There has been a shift in culinary habits as well. Rafael Tema Chavez, who runs the Licha restaurant when he is not at his second job as principal of the town's grade school, has recently added...
...before Marcos was out. In this article, the authors include numerous tables, entitled for instance: "Calorie Consumption as Percentage of Daily Requirement and Instability First Year After Death [of Dictator]"; "Urban Population and Instability First Year After Death"; "Literacy and Instability First Year After Death"; "Annual Growth GPD Per Capita and Instability First Year After Death"; with percentages, numbers, and items like "Extensive," "Moderate," "Limited," "None," "Total." I already question the meaning of these tables per se. But in addition, the authors follow these tales by predictions...
...fact, nearly half of all women in the U.S. wear size 14 or larger. The proportion may well grow: though more Americans may be eating a healthier diet than they once did, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has calculated that in 1985 Americans were consuming 7% more food per capita than they were ten years earlier. Meanwhile, the wave of women entering managerial and professional ranks has greatly increased the demand for fashionable clothing in all sizes -- along with the income to pay for it. Some clothing experts estimate that fully 45% of women wearing size 16 or larger...
...with a vengeance last February. For the economy, the result was that the Philippine GNP, which had dropped 5.6% in 1984 and another 3.8% in 1985, continued to fall through the first half of 1986 before ticking up an almost unnoticeable .13% by the end of the year. Per capita income suffered a 15% cut, particularly cruel since an estimated 70% of the population live below the poverty line...
...sobering fact, though, is that the Philippine economy must continue to grow at the projected 6% rate for the next four years just to bring per capita income back to where it was in 1981. Along with that daunting prospect, the Aquino government faces the critical issue of land reform. The Philippine population is growing at 2.5% annually; many of the children are born into families of landless, impoverished peasants. They are a prime recruiting source for Communist rebels...