6/85Interest payments on the federal debt that were made to foreigners in 1984: $19,800,000,000
U.S. foreign aid in 1984: $15,583,000,000
Amount that will be spent on Star Wars R&D before a deployment decision is made: $76,000,000,000
6/85Hours spent on strike by Italians in 1979: 192,700,000
The average New Englander: 23
6/85Percentage of Americans who say they would rather have a tooth pulled than take a car in for repairs: 20
6/85Potholes in the United States: 55,961,000
6/85Cost of having a car blessed at the Daishi Buddhist temple in Kawasaki, Japan: $10.77
6/85Cost of a car wash at Steve’s Detailing in New York City: $145
6/85Percentage of American women who said they liked sports cars in 1976: 39
Who say that today: 56
6/85Percentage of American men who say they sleep in the nude: 19
Percentage of American women: 6
6/85Copies of Bride’s bought by the magazine’s average reader: 7
6/85Percentage of black high-school graduates under 25 who are unemployed: 26.8
Percentage of white high-school dropouts under 25 who are unemployed: 26.2
6/85Rank of indifferent, apathy, and obscure among the vocabulary words appearing most frequently on the SAT: 1,2,3
6/85Amount South Africa spends to educate the average white student each year (in rand): 1,385
6/85Percentage of New York City children who live below the poverty line: 40
6/85Average age at which American girls began to menstruate in 1900: 14.3
6/85Average age at which an American first gets a watch: 6 1/2