And while the U.S. received high honors in some areas--first, for instance, in research collaboration between businesses and universities and third in number of patents per capita--it ranked 48th in science and math education, 53rd in the burden of government regulation and 23rd in Internet bandwidth.

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In 1995, for instance, real sales per employee rose 10% while non-farm productivity rose only 0.2%.

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