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Portugal is one of the poorest nations in the West, with an average annual per capita income of only $460. Forty per cent of the population is functionally illiterate. Emigration out of the country--both to find better paying jobs and to escape the four years' compulsory military service--has reached alarming proportions. In the last ten years, 1.5 million people--a third of the total labor force--has left, causing a shortage of manpower and a rise in production costs...
...Boulder, which once gloried in the title "Nicest Small Town in the U.S.," recently proposed a charter amendment that would set a ceiling of 100,000 on the population (current pop. 72,000). Though the amendment was voted down, concern is spreading. Denver now has more cars per capita than Los Angeles, and many Denverites are looking forward with dread to the 1976 Winter Olympics. A proposal to withhold state funds for the Games will appear on the ballot in November. Says Colorado Democratic
...economies are often tied to single crops-sugar and bananas -that fetch low prices on world markets. They cannot mechanize agriculture to cut costs and raise incomes because that would only aggravate unemployment, which runs as high as 25% in Jamaica. The result is low productivity and per capita incomes that range from about $65 a year in Haiti to $555 in Jamaica, one of the more prosperous of the Caribbean islands...
...think I'd rather smoke cigarettes, eat pizza, and drink the yearly per-capita average of 15 fifths of liquor...
...meat, Nixon also removed the import quotas for the rest of this year. It is questionable whether that will make much of a difference in meat prices. On a per capita basis, imports last year accounted for only 11 Ibs. of the average 192 Ibs. of meat eaten by Americans. Imports have been low partly because of quotas and partly because of quality. While Americans savor the well-marbled steaks and tender roasts that come from grain-fed cattle, foreign ranchers generally raise grass-fed cattle, which produces leaner meat. In the U.S., imported beef is usually ground up into...