10/84American firms doing business in El Salvador: 51
10/84Estimated value of Colombia’s annual drug exports: $8,000,000,000
Estimated amount of Colombia’s foreign debt: $10,472,000,000
10/84Value of bank loans to the East German government guaranteed by West Germany: $730,000,000
10/84Value of claims filed this year with Lloyd’s of London for satellite launch failures: $300,000,000
10/84Average life span of a 1960s television sitcom (in years): 2.26
10/84Percentage increase in the number of cop shows in prime time since last season: 100
10/84Percentage of adolescent boys who say they “hit or beat up another kid” in the past year: 64
10/84Percentage of American women who think they would do “better than average” in a fistfight: 27
10/84Percentage of Geraldine Ferraro’s votes in Congress in 1983 that supported the Democratic Party leadership: 92
Percentage of the average House Democrat’s votes that did: 76
10/84Jobs created by every billion dollars of U.S. government defense spending: 21,000
10/84Number of general elections Walter Mondale has won when not running as an incumbent: 1
10/84Number of members of the International Flat Earth Research Society: 2,000