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...prohibits direct aid to Laos other than for humanitarian purposes. Laos is a tiny, isolated country of nearly 4 million where the annual per capita income is about $100. At the U.S. embassy in Vientiane, Charge d'Affaires Theresa A. Tull points out that the U.S. recently donated 5,000 tons of rice to Laos to help it survive a bad harvest. But Tull is firm when asked if the U.S. plans to open financial doors for Laos on the basis of the one crash-site excavation. "We need more than a single event," she says. "We need a sustained...
...South is much poorer than the North, Winter notes, adding that Mississippi has the lowest per capita income of any state. Necessary capital from the Northeast has not been invested in the South: he says...
...watching as events unfold, and we're encouraged," said a U.S. official. It seems unlikely that any Canadian government could stimulate the economy much while facing a budget deficit of $26.5 billion, which is even higher than this year's U.S. deficit on a per capita basis. Finance Minister Michael Wilson calls reduction of the deficit "the key to growth and job creation" in his country. But Wilson fears that "Canadians may not fully grasp its consequences or share my concern about it." He is expected to announce deep government spending cuts in the spring...
...author maintained that this renaissance is also occurring in Japan, a country in which "Megatrends" has sold more copies per capita than in the U.S., and which is experiencing a resurgence of interest in traditional tea ceremonies, flower arranging, and spirituality...
...California's vintners is the general stagnation in U.S. wine sales. Says Ann Clurman, a social-trends researcher for Yankelovich, Skelly & somewhat." White: The fetish "Wine for has lost fitness, its along status with increased minimum drinking ages and stiffer drunk-driving laws, has stalled U.S. adult per capita wine consumption at about 2.2 gal. annually...