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...federal grant usually finds private sector support much easier to come by. "The NEA has generated at least $5 for every federal dollar spent over the past five years," Florence Lowe, director of Public Affairs at the NEA, says. "Support for the arts in the private sector has increased tenfold...
...economy has not been growing. Our G.N.P. is almost static." In 1980, in fact, the rise in G.N.P. was a mere .9%, a disaster for a nation that must pay ever higher import bills. Israel's energy bill alone, a relatively tiny $200 million in 1973, had increased tenfold by 1980, to $2.2 billion. Foreign debt stood at a chilling $17.5 billion-an awesome 83% of the G.N.P. -$4,500 for every man, woman and child in Israel...
...survive, it says so right here in this book. The economists knew only numbers, not asibaya, not an Arab sense of community, not the Third World flexing its muscles. We ask, Where will the price go? Ten years ago not a single economist could foresee a tenfold increase in price. OPEC is a Club, not quite a cartel, not as well organized as the Texas Railroad Commission, sometimes more like a bunch of 18th century privateers waiting for the fat Spanish galleons to pass. It has survived a 35% drop in demand for its oil. in 1975; it has survived...
...imported $3.5 billion worth of farm and manufactured products from the U.S., but only $342 million in goods from the Middle East, including oil. By 1978 (the most recent period for which complete figures are available) the E.C.'s purchases from the U.S. had jumped a respectable tenfold, to $35 billion. But purchases from the Middle East had soared to $42 billion, a sum spent in large part for crude oil and natural gas. In only two decades, the Middle East had become substantially more important than the U.S. as a Western European trading partner. Even more important, Middle East...
Benacerraf will be the first professional president of the Farber Institute, a Harvard-affiliated research center located near the Medical School. "In effect a new position has been created to meet the responsibilities of directing the institute, which has grown tenfold in seven years," Smith said...