33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 330 of 333.
“Schily is putting through a law that will give citizenship to many of the three million Turks who are now more or less permanently resident in Germany.”
“Immigration is a hot issue in France, because of the size of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s far-right Front National. Now, although Le Pen’s party is split and fading...”
“Charles Pasqua, a former interior minister has formed a new movement, the “Rassemblement pour la France”, which is poised somewhere between the old right parties and the Front.”
“He also had little time to settle in: in the first week of the new year, the Italian media were filled with images and stories of the “babygangs of Milan” – bands of teenagers, many between the ages of 12 and 15, who roam the streets of Mi…”
“Italians now constantly complain to each other that there are more non-Italians – often Albanian immigrants – on public transport than Italians. The crimes that have been laid at the door of these immigrants, and the expense of housing the…”
“Jack Straw’s move, in the current legislation, to make payments to asylum-seekers and immigrants in kind via vouchers rather than in cash reflects a European consensus.”
“Catholics make up more than 20 per cent of the Scots population.”
“Scotland’s tiny Jewish population has two well-regarded judges in Lord Caplan and Lady Cosgrove.”
“No judges have emerged from the “ethnic minorities”.”
“The people brought President Estrada to power – particularly the poor who make up over 90 per cent of the population – and now they are correcting their mistake,” says General Jose Almonte”
“In little more than a decade, the equivalent of 13 cities the size of Southampton – containing 1.1 million houses – will be built in the South-east.”
“Four 'areas of plan-led expansion' (ie, new towns) will go up round Ashford, Stansted, Gatwick and Milton Keynes...”
“He wants to go further, and suggests three super-cities: 'City of Mercia', from Milton Keynes to Northampton; 'City of Anglia', from Stevenage to Peterborough; and 'City of Kent', around Ashford, Dover and Folkestone.”
“And yet we woefully underfund and under-market the programmes of all its various elements, which contain something for everyone, and a bit more.”
“The monthly cost of treating a patient with anti-retrovirals is nearly eight times the average household income in South Africa.”
“in April last year, South Africa was placed on the US Trade Department’s 301 watchlist”
“It raised a lawsuit with 40 South Africa-based drug companies to challenge the law.”
“A recent study by Manchester University found 30 towns where more than a tenth of the homes were selling for less than £20,000.”
“up to 90 per cent of children get free school meals”
“half have special needs”
“Two-thirds of us (it sighs) don’t know what the turn of the millennium marks”
“the great majority of those describing themselves as Christians don’t believe in the Devil, the Second Coming or Hell”
“although, curiously, more believe in Hell than in the Devil”
“The only two things a majority of self-describing Christians agree on is that people “still respect the Christian clergy” and that “Christianity and the Church will still exist in a thousand years’ time””
“And 86 per cent of them have a Bible at home.”
“four years too early if you believe the astronomers; five, if you believe the arithmetical pedant who wrote to me”
“its nuclear forces are now larger than those of Britain or France”
“its apparent confidence in its own economic strength was signalled at the end of last year by the agreement with the US on the terms under which it would join the World Trade Organisation”
“China [is] rapidly becoming the globe’s second most powerful nation [and] will be a predominant force as the world takes shape in the new millennium”
“For the past 20 years, the Chinese Communist Party has identified a move towards the world market as a central strategic aim”
“the slogans and approach of Deng Xiaoping ("liberate your minds"; "to get rich is glorious")”
“it put pressure on the big state companies, which still dominate or even monopolise the sectors considered strategic, to match the global competition by the first years of the new millennium”
“The Nolan-Wang research showed, and what the debate in Beijing underscored, was that the past 20 years of preparation for the capitalist market had only partly worked”
“Nolan wrote a book in 1995 called China’s Rise, Russia’s Fall”
“Over the past decade or so bus miles run have gone up by 25 per cent and passenger miles down by the same amount.”
“A 1 per cent increase in the past year becomes a triumph for an industry that City analysts consider a near-miraculous cash cow.”
“Tubingen, arguably the St Andrews of Germany [...] carries about 35 per cent of local traffic by bus.”
“Cars take 30 per cent, the rest go on foot, by bike, or by a growing local railway network.”
“The bus system has increased by a factor of three, in terms of routes and density, since the mid-1980s.”
“And the vehicles are full, with an annual rate of increase of about 10 per cent.”
“Hence they load and unload fast and far fewer of them are needed: just over 60 for the entire urban fleet.”
“Second, ticketing is 80 per cent by season ticket, so passengers can board the bus at any door, cutting time at stops.”
“The subsidy is 15 per cent, but another 35 per cent comes from direct payments by educational authorities, the university and other employers.”
“They get a semester-season for DM70 (approximately £23) a year, involving a 30 per cent subsidy from the university – and more than 10,000 take up the offer.”
“Edinburgh is about to start construction of a “guided busway” to Turnhouse Airport at a cost of around £30 million.”
“There are 1,441 in Scotland, covering 12 per cent of the entire country.”
“In the long term, the Soil Association would like to see the world farmed 100 per cent organically.”
“It is 155 years since Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol”
“The 150-year-old house stood among open fields in the shadow of a scrubby hill, at the end of a mile-long drive lined with glistening hedgerows.”
“On the day before Christmas Eve five over-excited children, their harassed parent and a disgruntled grandmother who had never before spent a Christmas away from her own hearth, arrived at Preswylfa Gwyrdd.”
“A five-foot fir tree was on the roof-rack and a rapidly defrosting turkey in the boot”
“On Christmas morning, my mother was up early on turkey duty and had somehow managed to accommodate the 16lb monster in the tiny gas cooker.”
“Upstairs our youngest brother, Lawrence, just six months old, was sleeping in the cot.”
“within 17 years.”
“four times as great.”
“Some 1,300 million people”
“three-quarters of the world’s people”
“Twelve million children”
“Two in every five”
“One hundred and thirty million”
“250 million”
“less than 0.5 per cent”
“now it is 63.”
“have fallen by half.”
“So has the percentage”
“now less than a third”
“cut 500 million off population growth through family planning programmes, and has saved the lives of five million infants a year.”
“fell by over 15 per cent.”
“0.22 per cent”
“0.33 per cent and, if it had stayed at that level, $24 billion more would have been spent on aid in this year alone.”
“by more than a fifth”
“fell by 14 per cent”
“$206 billion”
“about three-quarters of it; the whole of Africa about 1 per cent.”
“halving the proportion”
“recorded more than 1.5 million “hits”.”
“around 89 per cent of those sleeping rough are men.”
“men still outnumber women four to one.”
“compare that to eight to one on the street.”
“there are roughly twice as many emergency beds available for women sleeping rough as there are for men.”
“There are 20 times as many male prisoners as female ones;”
“half of them have no home to go to after release.”
“young men in foster homes or institutions outnumber young women by roughly three to two;”
“boys outnumber girls by about four to one.”
“between one-seventh and one-quarter of young women who leave care are already mothers”
“men are twice as likely to be unemployed as women, and three times as likely to be long-term unemployed.”
“On the eve of the great mutiny of 1857”
“In 30 years all sense of aesthetics has gone from this town,”
“A young girl I know – 18 years old, from one of the royal families – was forced to take up this work”
“to Clarkes Hotel for a rich Punjabi businessman to enjoy for 500 rupees”
“Finally on the fourth day the neighbours began to notice a bad smell coming from his house”
“Mahmudabad lay only 40 miles outside Lucknow”
“the journey took well over two hours”
“between 20 and 30 retainers”
“The armed constabulary lived here for two years”
“ten tons in all”
“It was now nearly five o’clock”
“There was a fourth-century bishop of Myra in Asia Minor called Nicholas”
“for the first 400 years of Christianity”
“at least half of the saints on the annual calendar”
