4/90Number of years since the balanced-budget bill became law in 1985 that its deficit-reduction targets have been met: 0
4/90Amount the Pentagon “saved” by moving the first payday of fiscal 1990 back to fiscal 1989: $3,000,000,000
4/90Number of months after the Pentagon bought 80,000 camouflage helmet-covers that it found 80,000 in storage: 3
4/90Portion of all major domestic military bases that President Bush has proposed closing: 1/44
Portion of those the President has proposed closing that are in Democratic congresspersons’ districts: 9/10
4/90Percentage of the proposed capital-gains tax cut that will go to the richest 1 percent of American families: 66
Percentage of the cut that will go to American families earning less than $50,000 a year: 6
4/90Number of times President Bush used the words family, children, and kids in his State of the Union address: 30
4/90Ratio of presidential press conferences held last year to presidential press conferences held in 1981: 5:1
Ratio of network TV news coverage of George Bush last year to coverage of Ronald Reagan in 1981: 1:3
4/90Estimated amount Viking Penguin has spent on extra security since publishing The Satanic Verses: $3,400,000
Estimated amount Viking Penguin has earned from sales of the book: $3,400,000
4/90Number of hours after Charles Stuart’s suicide that the first contract was negotiated for a book about the case: 48
4/90Percentage of two-income families whose income would drop below the poverty line if the wife did not work: 50
4/90Number of months the 4 managers of the Moscow McDonald’s attended the Canadian Institute of Hamburgerology: 9
4/90Portion of thirtysomething’s advertising that was pulled from an episode last fall that showed two homosexuals in bed: 3/5
4/90Number of times George Steinbrenner has seen the film Patton: 15
4/90Estimated amount of time that Michael Jordan has spent aloft while playing in NBA games, in hours: 3
4/90Estimated average distance that a hospital nurse in New York City walks at work each year, in miles: 1,272
4/90Average number of pounds that American men add to their weight when reporting it: .91
Average number of pounds American women subtract: 2.3
4/90Percentage of men living in Bangladesh who live past the age of 65: 55
4/90Chances that an American who was overlooked in the 1980 census was black, according to the Census Bureau: 1 in 2
4/90Percentage of all billboards in white neighborhoods in Baltimore that advertise alcohol and tobacco: 20
4/90Number of the 11 magazine articles about lottery winners published in 1989 that ran in Jet magazine: 11
4/90Average amount an American who lives in a state that has a lottery spends each year on tickets: $100
4/90Number of times Noriega’s prisoner number was bet in the first Florida state lottery held after he was arrested: 12,139
4/90Rank of Washington, D.C., among U.S. cities with the highest rate of tax delinquency: 1