4/85Number of beer cans manufactured since they were introduced in 1935: 610,000,000,000

Can Manufacturers Institute (Washington, D.C.)

4/96Ratio of the price per ounce of Che Guevara beer to that of a beer named after indicted securities trader Nicholas Leeson: 3:1

Joe Grahame (London/South China Brewing Company (Hong Kong)

5/93Percentage of Americans who would accept a new 50¢ tax on a six-pack of beer to help finance health-care reform: 87

NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll (Washington)

8/92Percentage change, since 1979, in wine consumption in France: -42

Institut National de la Statistique et Etudes Economiques (Paris)

    Percentage change, since 1979, in frozen-food consumption in France: +463

Institut National de la Statistique et Etudes Economiques (Paris)

2/85Percentage decrease in wine consumption in France since 1978: 10

Le Nouvel Economiste (Paris)

    Percentage increase in cola consumption in France since 1978: 36

Le Nouvel Economiste (Paris)