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6/93Amount by which the 1994 Pentagon budget exceeds the 1975 Pentagon budget, in constant dollars: $32,100,000,000

6/93Estimated portion of the 1994 Pentagon budget that is devoted to defending against the former Soviet Union: 1/2

6/93Ratio of U.S. aid pledged to Russia to U.S. spending on strategic nuclear weapons and defense systems next year: 2:3

6/93Estimated portion of all money owed to the Russian government that is for arms sales: 2/5

6/93Percentage of the $490 million in criminal fines levied against failed S&Ls since 1989 that have been paid: 7

6/93Percentage change, since 1991, in the number of Americans who lost uninsured savings deposited at failed banks: +1,500

6/93Chances that a dollar of Federal Emergency Management Agency aid distributed in the last year went to Florida: 3 in 5

6/93Chances that there were no deaths from political violence in an African country last year: 1 in 8

6/93Number of black men, per 100,000, incarcerated in South Africa: 681

    Number of black men, per 100,000, incarcerated in the United States: 3,370

6/93Chances that an inmate’s suicide in a local U.S. jail will occur within one hour of incarceration: 1 in 2

6/93Percentage of Americans who say they “don’t know enough” about reports of Serbian atrocities to believe them: 53

6/93Percentage of Panamanians who say they want U.S. military bases to remain in their country past the year 2000: 80

6/93Chances that a new car bought in Kuwait since 1990 was American-made: 1 in 2

6/93Number of Baghdad’s eight daily newspapers that are controlled by Saddam Hussein’s son: 2

6/93Percentage of the papers presented to the Organization of American Historians in April whose subject is a historical figure: 5

6/93Average length of a Ross Perot speech, in minutes: 90

6/93Price of hiring Goofy as a “guest” at a Disney World wedding: $375

6/93Average percentage change last year in a U.S. movie’s box-office gross between the first and second weeks of release: -32

    Average percentage change between the first and second release weeks in 1982: +14

6/93Average number of Robert Ludlum novels sold worldwide, per minute: 18

6/93Amount spent in the last year on whirlpool tubs by Chinese Communist Party officials: $70,000

6/93Estimated total number of couples married in group ceremonies by Reverend Sun Myung Moon since 1960: 49,132

6/93Chances that a marriage ceremony performed in Japan last year was Christian: 1 in 3

6/93Percentage of Japanese who say they fear they will “die of overwork”: 40

6/93Average number of Americans who die each year as a result of insect bites: 40

6/93Ratio of the emissions produced by a car driven 50 miles to those produced by a lawn mower in one hour: 1:1

6/93Number of trees required to absorb the average annual carbon dioxide emissions of an American car: 200

6/93Price of a necktie made from whitewall tires, from One Song Enterprises of Willoughby, Ohio: $15.50

    Length of its limited warranty, in years: 500

6/93Amount by which the price of a pair of J. Crew broken-in jeans exceeds the price of a pair of regular J. Crew jeans: $8

6/93Average percentage increase in the bounce of a golf ball that has been passed through an electron beam accelerator: 5

6/93Price of golf, dinner, beer, and a “cart dance” by a topless female caddie at Fort Worth’s New Orleans Nights club: $620

6/93Rank of “Virtual Valerie” among best-selling pornographic CD-ROMs: 1

6/93Rank of June among months in which an American is most likely to have lost his or her virginity: 1

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