9/90Estimated amount stolen from federally insured financial institutions by bank robbers in 1989: $50,000,000
Estimated amount stolen from these institutions through bank fraud and embezzlement in 1989: $1,000,000,000
9/90Number of times Ronald Reagan has publicly mentioned the savings and loan crisis: 0
9/90Portion of network news coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign that focused on the role of television imagery: 1/2
9/90Estimated portion of the street price of crack in New York City that goes to growers, processors, and importers: 1/7
9/90Reward the Colombian army offered last spring for the capture of Medellín drug lord Pablo Escobar: $400,000
Reward Escobar offered for “the head” of Colombia’s investigative-police chief: $1,000,000
9/90Amount the U.S. Army spent last year on recreational target-practice programs for civilians: $5,000,000
9/90Change, since 1972, in the percentage of employed American men who have an employer-financed pension plan: -5
Change in the percentage of employed American women who do: +5
9/90Estimated amount the national debt will increase in the time it takes to read this line: $33,000
9/90Amount a paper shredder owned by Drexel Burnham was sold for at an auction of the company’s assets in June: $450
9/90Price of Cybervac, a self-navigating robotic vacuum cleaner, from Cyberworks of Ontario, Canada: $10,500
9/90Number of people who can be tested for radiation exposure in one day on France’s “hospital train”: 5,000
9/90Number of U. S. factories that pose a “high risk” of cancer to nearby residents, according to the EPA: 149
9/90Chances that a private-sector work-related illness reported in 1988 was caused by repetitive motion disorder: 1 in 2
9/90Percentage of men who are chronically constipated: 12
9/90Minimum amount of saturated fat that Julia Child says she makes an effort to consume each day, in tablespoons: 2
9/90Number of snails that animal-rights activists liberated from a snail farm in England last March: 153,000
9/90Federal housing funds spent by New Jersey’s Passaic Housing Authority in 1988 and 1989 to feed stray cats: $14,865
9/90Number of calls the Illinois Animal Poison Information Center received last year regarding pets swallowing marijuana: 68
9/90Gallons of poison the New York State Conservation Department will use this fall to kill fish that displace trout: 271
9/90Estimated number of people per square mile during peak season in the Yosemite Valley: 3,320
9/90Rickshaws the city of Jakarta, Indonesia, has dumped into the ocean since 1985 to reduce traffic congestion: 100,000
9/90Number of people in New York City who jump subway turnstiles, per minute: 105
9/90Amount the New York City Transit Authority has spent this year on psychological counseling for its executives: $11,500
9/90Maximum amount a Los Angeles taxi company can be fined if its drivers are found wearing anything plaid: $1,500