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...changing the structure of its society. In the past six years, thousands of new enterprises have created hundreds of thousands of new jobs that have drawn millions of Spaniards from their pueblos to the cities. Foreign investment is coming in. Gross national product has soared 65% since 1960; per-capita income last year passed the mystical $500 dividing line that supposedly separates the "rich" nations from the "poor...
Oblivious to Need. Some sad statistics tell the need: New Jersey has the eighth highest per capita income in the U.S.; yet it ranks 48th in its per capita support of higher education, ahead of only Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. While most states send only about 20% of their students to colleges in other states, New Jersey exports 55% of its high school graduates-leading educators to dub New Jersey "The Cuckoo State," after the bird that plants its eggs in other nests to hatch...
...underdeveloped areas have flourished as dramatically as Puerto Rico, where the tax incentives and government-built facilities under Operation Bootstrap have attracted 600 companies, created 65,000 jobs and raised per capita income from $121 to $900 a year. Bootstrap, however, has lured mostly light manufacturing. To keep its economy growing at the current 8% rate, the island needs heavy industry...
...most difficult thing is to convince the patients that the tragic defects in their appearance do not demand medical attention." Just in case they do, however, the institute's plastic surgery department will offer a complete line of nose bobs at a flat rate of 50 rubles per capita...
...relevant topics, notably Northern Ireland's chronic economic problem. O'Neill pointed proudly to the many foreign firms that he has lured to Northern Ireland, to a declining unemployment rate, to a diversifying economy no longer solely dependent on shipbuilding and weaving, and to an annual per-capita income that has risen from $779 to $980 in the 3½ years since he succeeded aging Lord Brookeborough as Prime Minister...