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1/86Number of South Africans whose race was legally reclassified in 1984: 795

1/86Number of the 48 U.S. prisoners executed since 1977 whose victims were not white: 5

1/86Average age at which an inmate in federal prison first fired a gun: 13.2

    Percentage of those who say the rapist was someone they were dating: 57

1/86Amount General Dynamics was fined by the Pentagon in 1985 for improper activities: $676,283.80

    Estimated value of Pentagon contracts awarded to General Dynamics in 1985: $8,000,000,000

1/86Percentage of U.S. Steel’s revenues derived from businesses other than steel in 1981: 31

1/86Percentage of unemployed Americans who receive no unemployment benefits: 75

1/86Percentage change in Britain’s manufacturing output since 1979: -6

1/86Number of U.S. companies acquired by British companies in 1984: 50

1/86Percentage of black industrial workers in Haiti employed by U.S. companies: 66

1/86Cost per second of advertising time on The Cosby Show: $9,000

1/86Chances that an American has appeared on TV: 1 in 4

    Percentage of conservatives who say this: 15

1/86Percentage of French women who say they’ve had sex in a movie theater: 2

1/86Percentage of American men who say they enjoy sex more than money: 47

    Percentage of American women who say this: 26

1/86Number of Cocaine Anonymous meetings held weekly in Los Angeles: 75

    Number that were held there three years ago: 6

1/86Number of states that have banned or regulated “happy hours” since 1981: 22

1/86Percentage decrease in the number of drunk drivers killed in accidents from 1980 to 1984: 24

1/86Percentage of Jeeps sold in 1984 that were bought by people living in urban or suburban areas: 59

1/86Cost of leasing one New York State sugar maple tree for one sap season: $29

1/86Percentage of Americans who say they had a pizza delivered in the last three months: 40

1/86Chances that an American has never eaten a bagel: 4 in 5

1/86Percentage increase, since 1977, in the number of Americans who skip breakfast: 33

1/86Rank of Alaska, among all states, in the percentage of people who walk to work: 1

1/86Number of Ant Farms sold since their invention 30 years ago: 7,000,000

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