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
6/93Percentage 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
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
6/93Number 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 percentage change last year in a U.S. movie’s box-office gross between the first and second weeks of release: -32
6/93Estimated total number of couples married in group ceremonies by Reverend Sun Myung Moon since 1960: 49,132
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