“To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.” IfsNeedsConditionsObjectsWindCostPercentGunEuropeFruitWesternRateArguingBunchCombatTanksGrapesPentagonRigorPurchasingTacticalWestern Europe Author:Dave Barry
“If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.” IfsMatterMotherBirthEuropeRateInjuryHospitalsInfectionComplicationAdmissionMidwifeCesarean Author:Ina May Gaskin
“The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.” PeopleMayChildrenStillsStatesDoneProblemFoundBeliefCausesTermUnitedUnited StatesStudyTakenEuropeRoseWesternRateAwfulCanadaAutismVaccinesCorrelationPolioWestern EuropePolio Vaccine Author:David Oshinsky
“Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world's cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world's population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa.” PeopleWorldLittlesCountryAgeAmericaHalfIndustryHighestEuropeEnvironmentalRateSizePopulationCancerBreastsLatinSouthernPollutionLowestAsiaFifthLatin AmericaBreast CancerNorth AmericaOne HalfAdjustingTrackingIndustrialization Author:Sandra Steingraber
“The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.” CountryInterestStruggleEconomicEuropePerformancesRateBurdenWideGermanyDividedIrelandConsumptionSpainHousingBeltsInterest RateCreditorsDebtorsDivergenceReunification Author:George Soros
“A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.” Has BeensFireColorEuropeRateLocalsSufficientLazyFourthProvenSuperficialIntrigueSkeletonsHacks Author:William Faulkner
“My plan has all that. It's energy independence. It will help our economy. It's a significant tax cut for corporations, including automatic expensing. It's bringing all those profits home from Europe without any taxation. It's lowering our corporate - or our personal rate to 28 percent, the same rate that Ronald Reagan had.” HelpingHomeEnergyEconomyCuttingPlansTaxesPercentEuropeIndependenceRateIncludingProfitSignificantCorporateCorporationsTaxationTax CutsEnergy Independence Author:Sean Hannity
“More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.” ReligiousHalfExampleChangedHigherAdultsEuropeLifetimeRateConversion Author:Susan Jacoby
“The only continent with a growth rate lower than Europe is Antarctica.” GrowthEuropeRateContinentsAntarctica Author:Gisela Stuart
“We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.” NeedsCountryDifficultGrowthInterestEconomicSolutionsEuropeRateDebtEconomic GrowthInterest Rate Author:Martin Schulz
“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.” KnowsYearsStatesDifficultGrowthEconomyEconomicExampleEuropeYears AgoWeakDollarsRateZoneTiedCurrencyArgentinaParameters Author:Vladimir Putin
“Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.” YearsBelieveWellsCountryFactsMillionsGoneBirthTenLimitsEuropeRateIncludingOther CountriesSeventiesBirth Rate Author:Indira Gandhi
“At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.” WorldStatesProblemUnitedUnited StatesDoubtWeaponsMassEuropeAreasDestructionVictimRateTerrorNo DoubtRegimesRefugeeUrgentWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionProliferationTerror Attacks Author:Vladimir Putin
“We're going through a mass rate of death in the United States, as it's going on in Europe, also, similarly. But the trend, and the policy of this President, Barack Obama, is mass murder. There's no question about it. This is Hitler kind of stuff.” KindStatesStuffPresidentUnitedUnited StatesPolicyMassEuropeMurderRateBarackTrendsPresident Barack Obama Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.” EndsGamesLeftSportsPayMillionsDangerousTvsEuropeRateClubsThe End Of The DayGoodsSpectatorsConsumingProgrammesGoods And Services Author:Angela Merkel
“The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered by socialism is that they’re not so hung up on personal liberties there. They also have lower population growth rates, despite comparable income levels. The Europans are all-around more rational, basically. And the conversation about rights in this country isn’t rational. It’s taking place on the level of emotion, and class resentments, which is why the right is so good at exploiting it.” SaidCountryReasonGrowthLevelsEmotionLibertyClassRightsConversationEuropeRatePopulationIncomeSocialismRationalDespiteResentmentHungFree MarketPopulation GrowthPersonal Liberty Author:Jonathan Franzen
“If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.” IfsInterestWorryEuropeGoldRateRecessionsInterest Rate Author:Jeffrey Sachs