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...banks, as if they were to blame for incurring the city's debt. When that failed, he made a loud plea for more state and federal aid, when those governments were also hard-pressed for funds. Then despite the fact that New Yorkers pay the highest per capita taxes of any city in the nation, he tried to impose a "nuisance" tax on a variety of goods and services and increased the city corporation tax and real estate tax, even though delinquencies are rising at an alarming rate because landlords are unable...
...have been a Nigerian." Although Gowon is considered irreproachably honest, he was unable to control the widespread graft that helped prevent equitable distribution of the nation's oil wealth ($8 billion for 1974) to most of the 79 million Nigerians, who must still survive on an average per capita income of $120 a year...
Describing himself as "a confirmed evolutionist and reformist," Sakharov begins his essay with a stinging, detailed indictment of Soviet domestic and foreign policy. He decries average living and working conditions, the "lumpenization" of the Russian proletariat ("Per capita consumption of alcohol is twice what it was in tsarist Russia"). He also chastises the government for its "Russification" of ethnic minorities in the U.S.S.R., its support of dictatorships in Libya and Uganda, and genocide against the Kurds in Iraq. In a highly technical chapter on disarmament, he draws upon his own scientific expertise to discuss the problems posed by "heavy" missiles...
...zone operates its own courts, hospital, schools and even postal service, but few of the 15,000 Panamanians who work there share in the luxury. They remain largely an underclass; of 214 Canal pilots, for example, only two are Panamanian, the rest U.S. citizens. Outside the zone, per capita income averages about $1,000 annually, dropping to $123 for the lowest fifth of the population. Inside the zone, it approximates the U.S. middle class norm. Until recently, even the zone's water fountains were segregated-some for Zonians only, others for the Panamanians...
...Real disposable personal income-the broadest measure of the U.S.'s standard of living-rose at an adjusted annual rate of $133 per capita in the second quarter, to an average of $2,908 a year for every man, woman and child. That brought it back near the 1973 peak of $2,952. Most of the gain came from tax rebates and special Social Security bonuses; the rest resulted from longer working hours and higher wages-which are no longer being totally swallowed by inflation...