12/89Number of U.S. companies financed with junk bonds that have failed to meet loan obligations this year: 20
Number of developing countries that have failed to meet loan obligations to the World Bank this year: 9
12/89Total value of the loans disbursed to developing countries in 1988: $92,000,000,000
Total debt service paid by developing countries in 1988: $142,000,000,000
12/89Amount by which cash deposits exceeded cash withdrawals at banks in Miami in 1988: $4,488,124,000
12/89Percentage of Americans who say they approve of searching homes without a warrant in order to combat drugs: 52
12/89Cost to a Pole of a commercial flight on LOT Polish Airlines from Gdansk to Warsaw, in zlotys: 5,000
12/89Number of times President Bush has increased the amount of his pledge of aid to Poland since July: 4
12/89Percentage of Americans who have visited Washington, D.C.: 60
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70
12/89Number of the 3 highest-grossing foreign films shown in the Soviet Union last year that starred Steve Guttenberg: 2
12/89Number of designs submitted by Soviets for a national memorial to those who died under Stalin: 176
12/89Prize offered by Japan’s telephone company to any computer hacker who can penetrate its security system: $7,000
12/89Rank of the day after the San Francisco earthquake, among days with the most long-distance calls ever made: 1
12/89Estimated amount supermarket tabloids pay informants for celebrity tips each year: $4,000,000
12/89Number of filing cabinets full of jokes in Bob Hope’s fireproof vaults: 33
12/89Percentage of people who buy humorous greeting cards who say they think of themselves as funny: 78
12/89Number of times Al Neuharth uses the term S.O.B. in his autobiography, Confessions of an S.O.B.: 92
12/89Total weight of the pages of advertising in the September issue of Vogue, in ounces: 43
Total weight of the pages of editorial content, in ounces: 14
12/89Percentage of American men who say they deal with depression by trying to figure out their problems: 23
Percentage who say they deal with depression by watching television: 35
12/89Number of evangelical broadcast ministries that are currently being investigated by the IRS: 20
12/89Percentage of Americans who said last year that they didn’t know enough about Dan Quayle to form an opinion: 25
12/89Ratio of U. S. households that have real Christmas trees to those that have artificial Christmas trees: 1:1
12/89Percentage of Americans who consider themselves environmentalists: 76
12/89Percentage of Americans who live in an area where the air does not meet the standards of the 1970 Clean Air Act: 58
12/89Percentage of the insecticide used in the United States each year that actually reaches a targeted insect: .003
12/89Ratio of the total weight of the earth’s human population to that of its termite population: 1:10
12/89Number of pets blessed at the Feast of St. Francis at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine this fall: 1,000