4/94Rank of tax increases, among the reasons Americans cite for having not achieved the “American dream”: 1
4/94Total value of the 96,000 refund checks returned to the I.R.S. as undeliverable last year: $50,000,000
4/94Number of copies of the Walsh report sold by the Government Printing Office since its release last January: 500
4/94Expiration date of the new special prosecutor’s lease on a Little Rock office for the Whitewater investigation: 1/21/97
4/94Points by which President Clinton’s January approval rating exceeded that of Ronald Reagan after one year in office: 5
4/94Percentage change, since 1992, in New York Times articles mentioning the “information superhighway”: +2,025
4/94Percentage of all layoffs announced by U.S. companies in January that were in telecommunications: 41
4/94Percentage of Germans who believe the world would ‘be a better place “if everyone were like the Germans”: 21
4/94Percentage of Russians who believe the West is attempting “to weaken Russia with its economic advice”: 54
4/94Year in which Rush Limbaugh voted in a presidential election for the first time: 1988
4/94Ratio of the value of contracts signed by Michael Jackson in 1993 to that of contracts canceled: 7:1
4/94Estimated portion of Shaquille O’Neal’s 1993 income he earned by playing basketball: 1/5
4/94Number of the four most highly paid sports figures worldwide last year who are race-car drivers: 2
4/94Estimated number of people worldwide who live on less than $1 per day: 1,000,000,000
4/94Chances that a U.N. member paid its dues on time last year: 1 in 12
4/94Ratio of the number of casualties in the 1988 Armenian earthquake to the number in Los Angeles in January: 492:1
4/94Ratio of the force of the Armenian earthquake to that of the Los Angeles earthquake: 1:1
4/94Number of women a Texas company fired last year after O.S.H.A. ordered it to build more women’s rest rooms: 30
4/94Chances that an American who commits murder in his or her workplace will finish by committing suicide: 1 in 4
4/94Number of the Best Actor/Actress Oscar nominees since 1986 who played a mentally or physically disabled person: 9
4/94Number of movie deals proposed to Nancy Kerrigan in the week after she was assaulted in January: 35
4/94Pairs of tickets to a Bette Midler concert given to Californians last year in exchange for their guns: 4
4/94Number of Married … with Children scripts about TV violence rejected by the Fox network last year: 2
4/94Percentage of editors of U.S. daily newspapers who say that an advertiser has tried to influence their content: 90
Percentage who say the advertiser was successful: 37
4/94Number of wiretaps and listening devices authorized by law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. each month last year: 77
4/94Value of the federal government’s stockpile of “medicinal” opium and morphine: $21,800,000
4/94Amount the government will spend this year to “upgrade” their supply: $1,100,000
4/94Amount the federal government spent on pickle research last year: $277,000
4/94Percentage increase in White House Domino’s Pizza orders each day Hillary Clinton is out of town: +18