9/86Number of the seven domestic terrorist attacks in 1985 that the FBI believes were committed by Jewish groups: 4
9/86Amount spent by the United States in 1985 on military operations in the Third World: $137,600,000,000
Amount spent guarding the country’s borders: $9,200,000,000
9/86Annual percentage growth, since 1981, in the income of people who live in California and the East Coast states: 4
In the income of people who live in the other thirty-four states: 1.4
Number of feet it moves to the south: 29
9/86Combined debt of Iowa farmers: $16,300,000,000
Percentage of Chileans who say they feel “boredom,” “indifference,” or “antagonism” toward politics: 53
9/86Percentage of Brazilians who suffer from malnutrition: 65
9/86Cost of annual membership in the Breakfast Club at New York’s 21 Club: $5,000
9/86Percentage of Frosted Flakes eaters who are adults: 46
9/86Percentage of the 2,000 referendums on water fluoridation held since 1950 that have been voted down: 60
9/86Percentage of practicing physicians who belonged to the American Medical Association in 1962: 74
9/86Days spent on strike by British workers in 1979: 29,474,000
9/86Percentage of jobs created in the United States between 1978 and 1984 that pay less than $9,200 annually: 37
9/86Number of major corporations that contributed more to Senator Packwood in 1985 than they paid in taxes: 13
9/86Percentage of Americans who say they have been “moved to tears” by a greeting card: 29
9/86Percentage of teenagers’ favorite songs that they say are about sex, violence, satanism, or drugs: 7
Percentage they say are about love: 26
9/86Percentage of Americans who say they are “dissatisfied with the honesty and standards” of others: 63
9/86Number of state and federal prisoners granted early release in 1985 because of prison overcrowding: 18,617
9/86Reported cases of people bitten by rats in New York City in 1985: 311
Of people bitten by other people: 1,519