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8/88Number of the last 10 elections that were won by the nominee who gave the most optimistic convention speech: 9

8/88Funds budgeted by the Republican National Committee for negative research on Michael Dukakis: $500,000

    Funds budgeted by the Democratic National Committee for negative research on George Bush: $250,000

8/88Amount a co-chairman of the Bush campaign’s finance committee contributed to the Dukakis campaign: $1,000

8/88Amount Israel has spent since December on defense forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: $300,000,000

8/88Price of an Al-Asr Prayer Watch, which indicates the direction of Mecca and five daily Muslim prayer times: $95

8/88Number of the 23 daily newspapers in New York City that are published in English: 10

8/88Number of New York Times articles since 1984 that have mentioned Nicaragua’s La Prensa: 263

8/88Portion of the land in Nicaragua that is owned by the government: 1/8

8/88Portion of the land in the United States that is owned by the government: 1/3

8/88Acres of crossword puzzles Americans fill in each day: 54

8/88Number of Kiwanis Club meetings that take place each weekday: 1,300

8/88Percentage of Americans who live within 50 miles of the place where they grew up: 54

8/88Percentage of adults who say that, even if they could, they would not change anything about their appearance: 4

8/88Number of times George Bush called Ted Koppel “Dan” during his June appearance on Nightline: 3

8/88Percentage of Americans who say they saw Dan Rather’s January interview of George Bush live on TV: 29

    Percentage who actually did: 13

8/88Average number of minutes a viewer spends watching a TV program before changing the channel: 3.7

8/88Percentage of their lives Americans spend outdoors: 2

8/88Percentage change, since last year, in the number of yellow-pages listings for tanning salons: +55

    For solar-energy equipment wholesalers: -48

8/88Number of weed species that have developed a resistance to herbicides since 1968: 70

8/88Number of people worldwide who die each year as a result of pesticide poisoning: 14,000

8/88Rank of “crashing or dying” among the reasons people say they fear flying: 4

8/88Chances that an adult will die after a fall from six stories: 9 in 10

8/88Chances that a New York City traffic officer was assaulted on the job in 1987: 1 in 5

8/88Amount the U.S. Air Force will spend this year on imported-goatskin flight jackets: $5,193,000

8/88Amount spent this year on Chinese yak hair for British Army helmets: $300

8/88Cost of renting a giant panda from the Chinese government, per day: $1,500

8/88Price of dyeing a dog pink at the Village Dawg Shoppe in Rockville Centre, New York (with shampoo and cut): $87

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