7/88Value of the arms that Warsaw Pact members have bought from NATO countries since 1982: $35,000,000
Value of the arms that NATO members have bought from Warsaw Pact countries since 1982: $165,000,000
7/88Amount the Pentagon spent last year on foreign-made parts and equipment: $21,000,000,000
7/88U.S. military spending during the Reagan administration, per second: $8,607
7/88Portion of all arms sales worldwide, since 1982, that went to the Middle East: 2/5
Percentage who say they would vote for a homosexual: 26
7/88Percentage of voters who list their spouse as a “very important” source of information about candidates: 19
7/88Percentage of executives who rank themselves as their “most trusted confidant in an ethical situation”: 44
7/88Chances that an American earning hourly wages is paid less than $5 an hour: 1 in 3
7/88Bounty that drug smugglers are rumored to have put on Barco, a U.S. Border Patrol drug-sniffing dog: $30,000
7/88Ratio of tourists to scientists and researchers visiting Antarctica last year: 1:1
7/88Profits earned by Coca-Cola in Japan last year: $350,000,000
In the United States: $324,000,000
7/88Percentage of 13- to 15-year-old boys who say that it is acceptable for a man to rape his wife: 86
Who say that it is acceptable for a man to rape his date if he has spent “a lot of money” on her: 24
Number of people who have died of measles since then: 14,000,000
7/88Total cost of eradicating smallpox, worldwide: $300,000,000
7/88Projected total cost of the Love Canal cleanup: $250,000,000
7/88Chances that the blood of an American who uses a public water system contains a dangerous amount of lead: 1 in 5
7/88Price of an order of sushi at Dodger Stadium: $4.50
7/88Percentage of all ice cream consumed by Muscovites that is vanilla: 95
7/88Number of Soviets in Petrozavodsk who were crushed to death in liquor-store lines last year: 3
7/88Price paid in West Virginia last April for a case of Billy Beer: $2,000