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...will be hard, perhaps impossible, for Switzerland to break from its nuclear umbilical cord. Lacking fossil fuels, it relies more per capita on nuclear power for its electrical energy than any other country in the world. Three nuclear plants produce 12% of Switzerland's electricity needs. A fourth plant was supposed to have started up by now, but it has been delayed indefinitely by Harrisburg. Admits Willi Ritschard, Switzerland's energy minister: "We Cannot survive without nuclear energy...
...latest reckoning of London's Brewers' Society, Australians and Czechoslovaks rank just behind the Germans, with annual per capita consumption of just under 36 gal. of beer. Americans, who consume nearly 23 gal. a year, rank eleventh...
...approved projects are permitted until the funds have been raised. Thanks to this careful management, and greatly aided by the country's mining industry, Botswana's economy is roaring along with a growth rate of 25% a year, one of the highest in the world. Per capita income has risen from $180 in 1972 to $480 last year, and the country's foreign exchange reserves have doubled to $150 million in the past two years...
TITLE IX, which mandates equal allotment of college and university athletic funds to men and women on a per capita basis, poses a threat to big revenue sports. The schools that count on that revenue plan to water the law down...
...equal expenditure per capita test is a measure to insure equal opportunity, because other tests listed in the 1975 legislation proved ineffective, and provided ways for colleges to avoid that objective...