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...measures it is a faded flower. Its archaic constitution prohibits dueling and admonishes the Governor to sneak into the treasurer's office at night to count all the state's money. Its youngsters are not required by law to attend school. Its people have the lowest per capita annual income in the nation ($3,803). Its dominant Democratic Party has grown sluggish after 100 years of unbroken rule. But as it approaches a gubernatorial election on Nov. 4, some new breezes are blowing on the old magnolia. Two sometime mavericks are locked in a close race...
...only on once desolate beaches. The result for Spain was its own economic miracle-a swift switch from decaying feudal empire to industrial state. The gross national product rose from $29.3 billion in 1963 to an estimated $65 billion in 1974, and there was a corresponding increase in per capita income, from $934 in 1963 to $2,100 today...
...comparisons are irrelevant, says Pechman; other countries have been investing more because they have had to; they were behind economically, and trying to catch up. That is also why their growth rates have been higher--they had lower starting points. In other words, at the upper reaches of per capita output, marginal growth rates can only be very small...
...environment, including indexes for air, water and noise pollution, climate and availability of recreation; 2) politics, which embraces the turnout of voters, number of newspapers and TV stations, and the performance of local government in fighting crime and getting federal aid; 3) economics, meaning everything from personal income per capita to unemployment rate to differences in income between center cities and suburbs; 4) health and education, including hospital occupancy and infant mortality rates, the percent of population enrolled in schools, the number of non-high school graduates; and 5) a grab bag of 54 "social components" that included racial equality...
...leave it and stay as long as he can get grants, as a research fellow at the center, which he describes as "exhilarating." Right now he is in the second and final year of work on alcoholic abuse in the Soviet Union--which has the highest per capita consumption rate in the world--courtesy of a National Institute of Health grant. A book will follow, with a companion volume written by Boris Segal, now a member of the center and an exiled dissident who was the Soviet Union's foremost expert on alcoholism, Powell says. (Every one at the center...