Total spending is around half the American level, and taxpayers subsidize the poor.

Japan imports all its oil and sets gasoline prices at roughly three times American levels.

The stores charge much higher prices because they pay rents and wages at American levels.

Polish roadside services, while not always at American levels, are rapidly improving.

Over the past five years, growth averaged little more than 1 percent, less than half the American level.

In the early 1970s pay-outs were 50-60%, similar to American levels.

These levels would ease the kind of measurements that can be done at the American four-pound level.

As you know, there is an initiative at European and American level in this field.

The new level, he said, would be about 20 percent of current American levels.

That is because their energy consumption per person remains less than one-sixth the American level.