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Iran's economy is growing at the rate of 12% a year, and the per-capita income of its 26 million people has nearly doubled-from $130 to $250-in the past ten years. The country, which once depended on U.S. aid ($1.7 billion since World War II) for...
The need for such reform has grown more and more obvious to experts. World trade has doubled over the past decade, but reserves to finance it have grown only 40%. Last year hoarders squirreled away almost as much gold as the world mined; with increasing industrial demand for the metal...
The financier may merit the honor even more than the philosopher. With Cornfeld putting up an office building and a host of new apartments to house his employees, the population of economically depressed Ferney-Voltaire has almost doubled, rising to 5,000; the town will be further enlivened by a...
He has encouraging news for them. The government's operating budget has gone from a $30 million annual deficit to a slight surplus this year. Fruit and vegetable exports have doubled. Housing starts are up 60%, the capital flight has halted, and new investment is trickling in. All this...
Phenomenal Popularity. Where it went is into just about everything that is manufactured or grown. In various forms, including sulfuric acid, the nation's most widely used chemical, sulfur is used for such chores as tanning leather, cleaning steel, pigmenting paint, making plastic and paper. Mostly, the shortage is...