11/86Average annual percentage change, since 1978, in the productivity of American blue-collar workers: +3.4
In the productivity of American white-collar workers: -.3
Percentage of goods imported by the United States that are: 68
11/86Attacks made on the United States in speeches at the 1980 conference of non-aligned nations, in Havana: 14
11/86Number of college courses on the Vietnam War offered in 1980: 58
11/86Percentage of Chicago public school teachers who send their children to private or parochial schools: 38
11/86Percentage of Americans who don’t know how long a meter is: 66
Who don’t know who William Rehnquist is: 71
11/86Percentage of the $2.1 billion federal antidrug budget that goes to law enforcement: 69
That goes to educational programs: 1
11/86Gallons of urine analyzed in the United States last year for evidence of illegal drug use: 1,190
11/86Percentage of Iowans whose drinking water contains traces of one or more pesticides: 27
11/86Amount The Triumph of Beauty, a portrait of Imelda Marcos, brought at auction in August: $27,500
11/86Percentage increase, since 1975, in the number of prime-time TV characters who are women over 50: 500
11/86Chances that a working American has worked at a McDonald’s: 1 in 15
11/86Number of Americans who have not been to a dentist in over a year: 122,000,000
11/86Average number of South Africans detained every hour since the government declared a state of emergency: 8
11/86Rank of Mass, bingo, and religious education among the most popular activities at U.S. Catholic churches: 1,2,3
11/86Rank of Mississippi, among all states, in the number of professional football players produced per capita: 1
11/86Height of basketball player Manute Bol: 7' 6 3/4"
11/86Diameter of the Wheel of Fortune: 8' 6"
Percentage who say the automobile is: 10