6/84Percentage of voters who say they are more likely to vote Democratic in November if a woman is on the ticket: 26
9/86Percentage of teenagers’ favorite songs that they say are about sex, violence, satanism, or drugs: 7
Percentage they say are about love: 26
10/87Minutes Jerry Falwell spent soliciting contributions during the average Old Time Gospel Hour in July: 26
3/89Average number of calories burned during an “extremely passionate” one-minute kiss: 26
Number of calories in a Hershey’s Kiss: 25
2/90Percentage of the value of all foreign-owned U.S. real estate that is owned by Japanese companies: 15
Percentage of the value of all foreign-owned U.S. real estate that is owned by Canadian companies: 26
2/90Number of brand-name products that appear in Back to the Future, Part II: 26
2/91Percentage change, in the last year, in the number of home-equity loans made by American banks: +26
3/91Percentage increase, during 1991, in the number of people seeking emergency food aid in U.S. cities: 26
7/93Average decrease in the number of minutes women spend on housekeeping for every hour spent at a paying job: 26
9/93Percentage change in the number of racial-harassment complaints filed: +26
7/94Number of physicians who are running for the U.S. House or Senate this year: 26
10/94Percentage of Americans who believe that the world will be “better off” in the year 2000: 26
11/94Chances that a U.S. teenager has not spoken to either parent for more than ten minutes during the last month: 1 in 5
4/95Percentage of Americans whose homes are equipped with a padded toilet seat: 26
1/96Number of days after escaping a Danish prison last August that an inmate asked to be allowed back in: 26
Number today: 26
2/96Years in jail a California man was sentenced to last year after his third burglary offense, the theft of four cookies: 26
7/98Percentage of African Americans who say they have never heard of Kenneth Starr: 26
Percentage of all American adults under the age of 33 who say this: 21
6/99Percentage of Alabamans who oppose removing the state’s constitutional ban on interracial marriage: 26
3/00Percentage of the senior editorial staff of Talk magazine that has resigned since the magazine’s debut last summer: 26
12/00Days after his appointment last July that Japan’s top finance regulator resigned over “suspicious” payments he’d received: 26
3/03Minimum number of times since 2000 that U.S. news stories have described Al Gore as “president in exile”: 26
7/03Vote in April by which the North Dakota Senate upheld the state’s 1890 ban on cohabitation by unmarried couples: 26-21
1/04Number of political candidates murdered during Colombia’s regional election campaigns last year: 26
8/04Number of World Trade Centers under development worldwide since September 2001: 26
Number of them that are in Saudi Arabia: 3
Number of times they have called him a “warrior intellectual” or “warrior scholar”: 26
12/08Percentage of Fortune 500 companies that own a Web address in which their name is followed by “sucks.com”: 26
6/85Percentage of black high-school graduates under 25 who are unemployed: 26.8
Percentage of white high-school dropouts under 25 who are unemployed: 26.2
10/84Percentage of American women who think they would do “better than average” in a fistfight: 27
3/85Percentage of married women in the United States who say they have been raped by their husbands: 14
Who own U.S. government securities: 27
11/86Percentage of Iowans whose drinking water contains traces of one or more pesticides: 27
5/87Amount Britain’s Labour Party proposes to pay students 16 and older to stay in school (per week): £27
Today: 27
10/87Number of revolutions that Polish journalist Rvszard Kapuscinski has witnessed: 27
In public and private spending among the top 12 trading partners of the United States since 1982: 15
12/88Number of Wisconsin’s 33 state senators who voted in favor of a 1988 bill that allows the blind to hunt: 27
6/89Average ratio of students to teachers in an American public school classroom in 1955: 27:1
Average ratio today: 18:1
9/89Percentage of college students who say “the higher the tuition, the better the quality of the education”: 27
In the United States: 2
11/90Percentage of GOP state chairmen who say they would prefer someone other than Dan Quayle’ on the ticket in 1992: 27
3/91Estimated average number of seconds it takes a New York City thief to break into a locked car: 27
7/92Percentage of male college students who believe that life is “a meaningless existential hell”: 27
5/93Average distance between two conversing people that black Americans consider comfortable, in inches: 22
8/95Percentage of contributions to the Republican National Committee since 1993 that were of $1,000 or more: 7
Percentage of contributions to the Democratic National Committee that were: 27
12/96Number of its employees the Library of Congress has forced to take psychological exams since 1990: 27
7/98Number of animals that died in accidents at Disney’s new Animal Kingdom park before it opened last April: 27
12/01Estimated percentage of U.S. electricity demand that could be met by covering the nation’s roofs with solar panels: 27
2/02Percentage of oil imported by the U.S. last year that came from Persian Gulf countries: 23
9/02Number of square feet of retail space per American: 27
5/07Percentage of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have filed for disability with the VA: 27
Percentage of African Americans who have not: 20
8/08Percentage of U.S. homeowners who reported last year that they had bought a car using a home-equity loan: 27
8/99Circumference in inches of the biceps of the G.I. Joe Extreme doll introduced last year, if he were six feet tall: 27.3
1/94Cups of iceberg lettuce one must consume in order to satisfy the minimum daily requirement of any vitamin: 27.5
Cups of spinach one must consume in order to satisfy the minimum daily requirement of any vitamin: 1.3
3/01Percentage of global economic activity accounted for by the world’s 200 largest corporations: 27.5
Percentage of the world’s population that these corporations employ: 0.8
7/84Percentage of American women who consider themselves pretty: 13
Percentage of American men who consider themselves handsome: 28
5/85Percentage of mothers who do not receive the court-ordered child support to which they are entitled: 28
1/86Percentage of liberals who say they’ve gone skinny-dipping: 28
Percentage of conservatives who say this: 15
3/87Percentage of French men who say they would like to see Princess Stephanie pose nude in a magazine: 28
2/89Number of years Steve Jenne of Springfield, Illinois, has saved a buffalo sandwich bitten into by Richard Nixon: 28
6/89Number of states in which a family of four earning less than $12,000 per year is required to pay income tax: 28
7/91Percentage of Americans who say they develop nervous tics under stress: 28
9/91Percentage of American women who say they have listened in on their husband’s phone calls: 28
6/92Number of new Ku Klux Klan groups formed in the United States last year: 28
4/93Percentage of the parts in each new Chrysler Concorde, “the renaissance of the American car,” that are imported: 28
3/94Number of Clinton appointees found to be delinquent in paying social security taxes for domestic workers: 28
6/94Ratio of the amount President Clinton spent on polling last year to the amount spent by George Bush in 1989: 28:1
1/95Number of domestic-violence counselors the NFL sent to its teams’ training camps last year: 28
8/96Percentage of Republicans who said in May that the party’s platform should “remain silent” on abortion: 28
11/96Years before becoming the prime minister of Britain that John Major was “on the dole”: 28
3/99Number of American children crushed to death by television sets since 1990: 28
1/00Months’ worth of salary lost by Groucho Marx in 1929’s stock market crash: 28
1/00Days of imprisonment and torture undergone by Niccolò Machiavelli after falling out of favor with the Medicis in 1513: 28
Number of years later that his book The Prince was published, with a dedication to Lorenzo de’ Medici: 19
4/00Number of days a Norse woman incubated a bird’s egg between her breasts last spring before giving up: 28
11/00Percentage change in per capita U.S. sugar consumption since 1982: +28
4/01Average number of people killed in Laos each year since 1973 by U.S. bombs left over from the Vietnam War: 28
6/04Minimum number of the brand names mentioned in James Joyce’s Ulysses that are still extant: 28
Number of the brand holders that are sponsoring Dublin’s centennial Bloomsday celebration this month: 2
6/05Average number of hours it takes to read a weekday Washington Post out loud: 28
1/98Average number of performance days lost per high-school cheerleading injury each year: 28.8
1/85Percentage of women executives who say they prefer a male boss: 29
1/86Cost of leasing one New York State sugar maple tree for one sap season: $29
9/86Percentage of Americans who say they have been “moved to tears” by a greeting card: 29
2/87New business activities the Soviet Union will allow individuals to engage in for profit beginning May 1: 29
12/87Percentage of women in two-income families who say they “almost always” prepare the tax returns: 29
2/88Hand-carved marble columns in the living room of Donald Trump’s Trump Tower triplex: 29
8/88Percentage of Americans who say they saw Dan Rather’s January interview of George Bush live on TV: 29
Percentage who actually did: 13
9/88Percentage of voters who had an unfavorable opinion of Walter Mondale in July 1984: 29
2/89Total time that the song “Yesterday” has been broadcast or performed since it was written in 1965, in years: 29
3/90Percentage of U.S. insurance companies that say they “consider sexual orientation in underwriting”: 29
7/90Percentage of American children under the age of 6 who say that the first U.S. flag was sewn by Betsy Ross: 15
Percentage who say it was sewn by Barbara Bush: 29
5/91Number of articles in the New York Times this year that have included the phrase “mother of all”: 29
12/93Average number of pounds lost by a member of the Biosphere 2 team during the first two years of the project: 29
Percentage of Americans who say this: 4
5/94Percentage of Americans who say that women “sometimes deserve to be hit by their husbands or boyfriends”: 12
Percentage who say that men “sometimes deserve to be hit by their wives or girlfriends”: 29
8/95Average percentage change, since NAFTA went into effect, in top executive salaries at the 26 largest U.S. firms in Mexico: +29
6/97Estimated percentage of all goods and services produced worldwide last year that came from Asia: 22
12/97Percentage change since 1995 in total soft money raised nationally in the first six months of the election cycle: +29
7/98Percentage of Americans who say they are confident that passenger trips to the moon will occur in their lifetime: 29
Percentage who say they are confident that Social Security will provide them with “significant” income: 26
7/98Percentage of U.S. plant species cited as “threatened by extinction” by the World Conservation Union last April: 29
Hours after this announcement that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt declared war on weeds: 5.5
8/98Number of days after July 4, 1776, that the majority of signatures were appended to the Declaration of Independence: 29
7/00Average annual number of civilians killed by New York City police under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: 23
8/02Number of students at Illinois’s Aurora University who have earned academic credit for a course in “business golf”: 29
5/03Estimated percentage by which the average U.S. gasoline price would rise if costs of securing oil were recouped with a tax: 29
10/03Percentage of Iraqis who said in July that they would rather live under the Americans than under Saddam Hussein: 29
12/03Days after a 1961 meeting with Khrushchev that President Kennedy leaked claims of U.S. nuclear-missile superiority: 29
4/04Percentage of U.S. voters whose 2004 vote will be cast via a computer system producing no paper record: 29
12/06Number of worldwide incidents last Christmas of “Santarchy,” which involves roving mobs of unruly Santas: 29
Number of fruitcakes that drunken Santas catapulted into the air at the event in Portland, Oregon: 6
3/07Percentage of the world’s fished species that have lost at least 90 percent of their peak populations: 29
5/08Percentage change since then in the African-American population of nearby exurban Riverside County: +29
8/08Number of times per year that Canada’s defense ministry requires a think tank it funds to be mentioned in the press: 29
Number of op-ed pieces the think tank’s staff must publish, including letters: 15
2/09Percentage of U.S. school districts that have banned bake sales due to anti-obesity regulations: 29
5/94Price of an electronically animated bluebird, featuring “digitally recorded birdsong,” from The Sharper Image: $29.95
2/06Price for a vibrator that plugs into an iPod and “stimulates you in time with your favorite music”: £29.99
7/84Number of countries whose armed forces are combating a revolutionary or separatist insurgency: 30
Percentage of requests by Salvadorans: 3
Percentage of requests by Nicaraguans: 14
4/85Percentage increase in South Korean exports to the United States in 1984: 30
Yearly percentage growth in the U.S. population: 0.9
5/85Percentage increase in members of Manhattan’s West Side Rifle and Pistol Range since the Goetz shootings: 30
9/96Price per hinge the company had originally charged before deciding its subcontractor was “too slow”: $30
2/87Price of a 30-minute swim with dolphins at the Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Center in Key Largo: $30
10/88Number of minutes each day that a working couple spend in “meaningful conversation” with each other: 4
3/89Amount of time it takes to ride the entire length of the New York City subway system, in hours: 30
11/89Number of people who have died in police custody in New York City this year: 30
4/90Number of times President Bush used the words family, children, and kids in his State of the Union address: 30
7/90Percentage of parents who say they want the option of having their child’s school photograph retouched: 30
7/90Price of a full back-waxing for men at La Carezza in New York City: $30
1/91Number of White House changes incorporated into the civil rights bill before the President vetoed it last fall: 30
1/91Percentage of black New Yorkers who believe it is possible that AIDS is a plot to kill blacks: 30
9/91Percentage of the business loans made in the United States last year that were made by foreign-owned banks: 30
10/91Percentage of American men who say they have fantasized about having sex with a fictional TV character: 30
2/93Number of minutes it took an Australian man to give away the $1 million he won in a lottery last year: 30
3/93Percentage discount a California bookstore offers on maps or guides to any country that has “recently disappeared”: 30
7/93Estimated number of body parts suitable for piercing, according to Gauntlet, a New York City jewelry store: 30
9/93Maximum number of feet at which a car stereo may legally be audible in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as of June: 30
11/93Number of camera crews at the L.A.P.D.’s first press conference about charges made against Michael Jackson in August: 30
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
11/94Tons of talonas, Lithuania’s temporary currency since 1992, that have been converted into toilet paper this year: 30
12/94Number of Haiti’s 42 leaders since independence who have been murdered, deposed, or forced to flee the country: 30
4/95Number of times Governor Pete Wilson has declared a state of emergency in California since 1991: 30
4/95Percentage of Americans over the age of 65 who say that color is a “very important” factor in buying underwear: 30
Percentage of American adults under the age of 30 who say this: 11
7/96Percentage by which federal funding of legal services for the poor was cut last April: 30
8/96Days in jail to which a Pennsylvania man was sentenced last March for repeatedly oinking at his ex-wife: 30
9/96Amount by which the Naval Academy’s cost of producing a gallon of milk exceeds the average wholesale price: 30¢
10/97Years from now, “in a perfect world,” that no tobacco manufacturers would exist, according to the Liggett Group’s CEO: 30
1/98Number of years of legal action it took to get the CIA to release the annual US. intelligence budget last October: 30
1/98Number of foreign embassies that received G.O.P. fund-raising letters last October seeking $5,000 donations: 30
1/98Price a Nova Scotia artist charges for a silver necklace with a pendant cast from an antidepressant pill: $30
1/99Price of a day’s excursion at Obertraun Schilcherhaus, an Austrian resort offering nude cross-country skiing: $30
3/99Number of times one New Jersey high school was evacuated in the last school year due to bomb threats: 30
5/99Days the President should spend in jail “simply for hitting on a dog like” Paula Jones, according to O.J. Simpson: 30
4/00Minutes of pregame snowball making allowed in the International Snow Battle Contest held this month in Finland: 30
8/00Estimated number of years it will take to remove the 600,000 active mines in Bosnia-Herzegovina: 30
9/00Percentage of newborns in India who would qualify for intensive care if they were born in California: 30
12/01Price per family that a Puerto Rican company charged last December for a 5-minute stay in a refrigerated snowscape: $30
4/02Minutes before the President spoke at a jobs program last winter that protesters heard the event had been canceled: 10