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Jason L. Lurie ’05, who cast one of just three nay votes, said he objected to the bill because it distributes the same amount to each House regardless of the number of students, resulting in unequal per capita allocations...
...answer: “The U.S. company now with the largest revenue is located in this state, which has the lowest per capita income...
With a per capita income of more than $21,000 a year, on par with much of Western Europe, Qatar has found that wealth keeps discontent down. Still, many ordinary Qataris display anger over U.S. policies in the Middle East. "If you are coming for peace, good," says computer-science student Mohammed Lari, 21. "But if you are coming to fight a war, then we don't like...
...after independence in 1968, the government pinned development on diversification, luring Asian textile manufacturers with cheap labor and tax-free exporting zones. In the 1980s the country also invested in tourism and offshore banking. Economic growth has exceeded 5% a year over the past two decades, and per capita income is now more than $3,500, one of the highest in Africa. But rapid population growth and competition from other textile-producing countries have hurt. "We have to create new opportunities," says Kemraz Mohee, head of the National Computer Board. "Our kids' expectations are higher...
Canandaigua's brochures boast that the company sells the equivalent of 1,479,452 standard bottles of wine each day. But Moramarco knows that size isn't everything. The U.S. is the world's fourth largest wine producer--after France, Italy and Spain--but it ranks 35th in per-capita consumption. What the industry calls "core drinkers"--those who consume wine at least once a week--comprise 19 million Americans, according to research by the Wine Market Council. Another 29 million Americans drink wine at least once every three months. And both numbers have declined since 1994. Per-capita consumption...