3/86Percentage of families living below the poverty line in which at least one member is employed: 60
9/86Percentage of the 2,000 referendums on water fluoridation held since 1950 that have been voted down: 60
3/87Price of a Latin mass on videocassette: $60
7/87Percentage increase, since 1978, in the number of full-time workers who are paid minimum wage: 60
9/88Number of West Berlin prostitutes the government has placed in other lines of work: 60
1/89Percentage of Americans who have little or no sympathy for “people who get AIDS from homosexual activity”: 60
7/89Length of the entry for the word “set” in the 1989 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, in pages: 60
2/90Number of times Tammy Faye Bakker mentions crying in her two books I Gotta Be Me and Run to the Roar: 60
8/90Estimated percentage of AIDS carriers, worldwide, who contracted the virus through heterosexual sex: 60
1/91Percentage of Medicaid-application rejections that result from problems with paperwork or documentation: 60
8/91Percentage of Americans who say that a nuclear power plant in their own community would be “unacceptable”: 60
10/91Percentage of blacks who say that race “should never be a factor” in choosing a justice of the Supreme Court: 60
10/91Percentage of Canadians who say they have “never thought about” having sex with a co-worker: 60
Percentage who rate U.S.-produced steel as “excellent”: 8
9/92Average percentage of each candidate’s supporters who say their commitment to him is “strong”: 29
Percentage of soft-drink consumers who say their commitment to their brand is “strong”: 60
12/92Number of people who will participate in the first annual China Beach Surfing Contest in Vietnam this month: 60
8/93Percentage of Americans who say they have never heard the term “managed competition”: 60
12/93Maximum speed at which the seeds of the dwarf mistletoe are expelled when ripe, in miles per hour: 60
1/94Price of a pair of used Air Jordans in Japan: $60
3/95Percentage of all sitting federal judges who were appointed by a Republican president: 60
3/95Percentage of American teenagers who cite “not being in love” as the best reason not to have sex: 4
6/95Number of tourists who required emergency medical services last year while waiting to tour the White House: 60
9/95Percentage change in real dollars, since 1984, in the average tuition at a U.S. private college: +47
10/95Minutes of “delightful conversation” Senator Jesse Helms says he had last April with Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto: 60
Number of minutes after the conversation ended that he introduced her to the Senate as the leader of India: 10
9/96Percentage of Scandinavian junior high school bullies who are convicted of a crime by their twenty-fifth birthday: 60
11/96Number of times speakers at the Republican National Convention mentioned Ronald Reagan: 60
11/96Estimated number of assistance checks Dole officially signed for them as Russell County Attorney: 60
2/97Percentage of the heroin and cocaine consumed each year that is consumed by people on bail, probation, or parole: 60
4/97Estimated shift in the angle of the earth’s axis since 1950 due to dam-related water redistribution, in centimeters: 60
1/98Number of nights former congressman Daniel Rostenkowski spent at a Salvation Army halfway house last fall: 60
4/98Number of complimentary doughnuts Bob Dole receives each week as part of his Dunkin’ Donuts contract: 60
Number he distributed to reporters waiting outside Monica Lewinsky’s Watergate apartment last February 2: 48
5/98Number of House votes that Representative Jay Kim’s 1997 campaign-finance-fraud conviction will cause him to miss: 0
5/98Percentage of California counties declared disaster areas last February: 60
9/99Hours of helicopter lessons required for the new “Super Butler” degree at London’s most expensive butler school: 60
9/00Percentage of Americans who favor repealing the estate tax: 60
10/00Number of U.S. sheep and elk that have tested positive for a variant of mad cow disease in the last year: 60
2/01Rank of the Democratic Party and Nike, respectively, among sixty brand names tested for customer loyalty in 1999: 53, 4
Rank of the Republican Party: 60
3/01Number of “bonding sessions” organized by Procter & Gamble each week in Monterrey, Mexico, to encourage tampon use: 60
4/01Estimated percentage of immigrants to Israel from former Soviet states since 1998 who were not Jewish by birth: 60
5/01Percentage of TV investigative reporters and editors who say that an advertiser has tried to kill one of their stories: 60
11/01Percentage change since 1996 in the number of U.S. apprehensions of people trying to cross the Mexican border: +9
Percentage change since then in the number of U.S. border guards assigned there: +60
Percentage change since 1999 in the number of people who died on U.S. soil while crossing the border illegally: +56
2/02Number of attendees at a Washington, D.C., conference that month entitled “What if Congress Were Obliterated?”: 60
2/02Percentage of Americans who believe that U.S. Muslims have an “obligation to help authorities track down terrorists”: 60
2/02Minimum number of physical assaults made on Russian journalists in 2000: 60
12/02Percentage of Americans surveyed who say they refused to participate in a survey during the past year: 44
2/03Percentage by which the average sperm count of an urban U.S. male exceeds that of a rural U.S. male: 60
6/03Percentage of federal “domestic preparedness” funds allocated to the states since 1999 that remain unspent: 60
7/03Percentage of Americans who said at the end of April that their nation commanded less respect abroad than a year ago: 41
Percentage who said that the Iraq war will have been worthwhile even if Saddam Hussein is never captured or killed: 53
Percentage who said it will have been worthwhile even if weapons of mass destruction are never found: 60
2/04Percentage by which Dick Gephardt’s $460,000 overexpenditure exceeded the limits for Iowa’s nomination caucus in 1988: 60
2/04Ratio of 2004 Bush campaign donations from Merrill Lynch employees to those from Bechtel employees: 60:1
8/04Percentage points by which the President’s approval rating has fallen since September 2001: 41
Percentage points by which his father’s rating fell between the end of the Gulf War and August 1992: 60
10/04Percentage of Mississippians who have failed their written driver’s-license test since it became computerized last year: 60
8/05Percentage of Germans who say, about the Nazi era, that “one should not always poke around in old wounds”: 60
9/05Increase in the total value of U.S. residential property since 2000, expressed as a percentage of GDP: 60
1/06Percentage by which circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection, according to a study in South Africa: 60
6/08Average number of $1 million stock gifts made each year by U.S. CEOs and chairmen to foundations they control: 60
Average percentage change in the company’s stock price in the month after the gifts: –3
7/08Percentage of EPA scientists who say they have experienced political interference with their work: 60
1/09Percentage of EPA scientists who say they have experienced political interference with their work since 2002: 60
11/84Percentage of Americans who believed in 1973 that communism is the worst form of government: 44
9/08Percentage change since 2003 in the number of U.S. workers making “hardship withdrawals” from retirement accounts: +61
6/95Number of the sixty-one families whose genes are being mapped for the Human Genome Project who are Caucasian: 61
3/96Percentage of Americans earning less than $30,000 a year who believe “the meek shall inherit the earth”: 61
Percentage earning more than $60,000 who believe this: 36
12/00Percentage change since 1991 in the number of U.S. babies abandoned after leaving the hospital: +61
7/04Estimated percentage of U.S. corporations that paid no federal taxes between 1996 and 2000: 61
7/08Percentage change in applications for Virginia concealed-handgun permits in the year of the Virginia Tech shootings: +61
Percentage change since then in the number of federal wage and hour inspectors: –21
8/85Percentage of Broadway tickets that are bought by companies and deducted as a business expense: 20
10/85Percentage of teenagers who say they favor a one-year national youth service program for men: 62
1/88Percentage of public kindergarten students in Los Angeles who are Hispanic: 62
9/89Percentage of fast-food restaurant employees who say they have stolen food or money from their employer: 62
5/97Percentage of Minnesota counties reporting a “highly unusual number” of deformed frogs last year: 62
3/01Percentage of Venezuelans voting last December who approved a government-sponsored resolution to oust all union leaders: 62
Percentage of registered Venezuelan voters who voted at all: 23.5
4/02Number of Israeli military personnel jailed since September 2000 for refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories: 34
Minimum number of Israeli high school students who wrote Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last fall to refuse in advance: 62
7/03Number of terrorism indictments brought since September 2001 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey: 62
Number of them brought against Middle Eastern students for paying others to take their English proficiency tests: 60
1/04Percentage of Americans who say they would prefer a universal health-care system to the current one: 62
5/05Percentage of Republicans who say they would vote for Bush over George Washington: 62
5/06Percentage of China’s investable assets that are controlled by the richest half-percent of households: 62
9/86Percentage of Americans who say they are “dissatisfied with the honesty and standards” of others: 63
8/90Percentage of Americans who say that, given the choice, they would rather hear the bad news first: 63
3/88Number of Americans 65 or older who are arrested each day for drunkenness and disorderly conduct: 63
3/96Percentage of American men who believe “the country would be better off” if more members of Congress were women: 63
Percentage of these that predate the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994: 52
8/03Percentage of South Carolinians prosecuted under the state’s “anti-lynching” law since 1998 who are black: 63
10/06Percentage of Americans in July who said the U.S. had “a responsibility to try to resolve” the Israeli-Arab conflict: 33
Percentage of Americans who think that the president has “a lot” of control over the price of gasoline: 63
2/07Percentage of city-dwelling Indian men aged 16 to 25 who say they expect the woman they marry to be a virgin: 63
Percentage of these who have had sex with a prostitute or another man, respectively: 22, 17
3/07Percentage change since 2002 in the number of U.S. teens using illegal drugs: –15
Percentage change in the number of adults in their fifties doing so: +63
7/84Earnings of the average U.S. female worker, expressed as a percentage of the average male’s, in 1981: 59.9
10/84Percentage of adolescent boys who say they “hit or beat up another kid” in the past year: 64
3/86Percentage of Americans between ages 6 and 17 who cannot pass a basic fitness test: 64
9/87Percentage increase, since 1986, in the number of fashion pages in Vogue and Elle featuring black models: 64
Estimated percentage of Palestinian stone-throwers who are under 13 years of age: 60
3/90Percentage of journalists who say they would permit their child to have contact with a schoolmate with AIDS: 64
Percentage of scientists who say this: 39
5/90Percentage of Americans who do not know which country will control the Panama Canal in the year 2000: 64
9/94Number of U.S. cities in which AIDS is the leading cause of death among adults between the ages of 25 and 44: 64
11/97Average number of new millionaires created in Silicon Valley each day last year: 64
10/01Percentage of Americans who say Israel and the Arab nations will never “be able to settle their differences and live in peace”: 64
5/02Percentage of Enron’s 3,100 subsidiaries at the time of its bankruptcy that were located in other countries: 64
8/02Years before the death of Britain’s Queen Mother in March that the Times of London first wrote her obituary: 64
3/05Percentage of Britons who say their neighborhood would disapprove if more Iraqi immigrants moved in: 64
Percentage who say this about black immigrants from Africa: 43
4/85Percentage of supermarket buying decisions that are made in the store: 65
5/86Corporate sponsors of the recent dog-sled expedition to the North Pole: 65
9/86Percentage of Brazilians who suffer from malnutrition: 65
Percentage of American chief executive officers who do: 65
10/90Percentage of Americans under the age of 30 who say they read a daily newspaper: 40
Percentage of Americans over the age of 50 who say they do: 65
1/96Acres of old-growth forest that Wilderness Society president John Roush had cleared from his ranch last year: 65
3/97Attendance at the first annual Christian Nudist Convention, held last year in Shallotte, North Carolina: 65
10/97Price of a pair of fangs from New York City’s Sabretooth boutique: $65
9/98Percentage of U.S. National Park Service land that is in Alaska: 65
11/00Average annual number of traffic accidents in Iowa caused by low visibility due to corn stalks: 65
7/01Percentage change, since January, in the stock price of 99¢ Only Stores: +65
6/03Minimum number of times that actor Martin Sheen has been arrested in political protests: 60
Minimum number of times Abbie Hoffman was: 65
8/04Percentage of Britons who cannot name the city that provides the setting for the musical Chicago: 65
10/04Rank of this year’s desert-locust plague in northern Africa among the world’s worst in 15 years: 1
Number of countries susceptible to such a plague: 65
Average number made each year under Bill Clinton: 65
In South Africa: 4
11/86Attacks made on the United States in speeches at the 1980 conference of non-aligned nations, in Havana: 14
9/89Percentage of CEOs who say they would “hesitate” to promote a homosexual to an executive position: 66
Percentage of the U.S. Marines discharged last year for homosexuality who were women: 35
Percentage of U.S. Marines last year who were women: 5
4/90Percentage of the proposed capital-gains tax cut that will go to the richest 1 percent of American families: 66
Percentage of the cut that will go to American families earning less than $50,000 a year: 6
4/92Percentage change, since 1990, in the number of new “gourmet” products introduced in U.S. stores: +66
10/93Percentage of South Carolina’s corn crop destroyed by heat and drought: 66
7/95Percentage of men between twenty-five and thirty-four who earn enough to keep a family of four from poverty: 66
2/97Percentage of children between 6 and 9 who know that Jerry Lewis was the star of the original Nutty Professor: 66
3/97Percentage of the cigarettes sold overseas by U.S. companies last year that were manufactured overseas: 66
9/99Speed at which an Iowa state trooper clocked a car last July in which Pat Buchanan was on the phone with Oliver North: 66
3/00Number of people in North Carolina killed by automobiles since 1998 after lying in the middle of the road: 66
8/02Percentage of Washington, D.C., murder cases opened last year that remained unsolved by year’s end: 66
4/04Monthly bonus an Indian chief of police is paying his officers who grow mustaches, which, he believes, command respect: 66¢
8/07Percentage of conservative voters who said in May that they favor amnesty for illegal immigrants: 55
Percentage who said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who favored such a plan: 66
Ratings for Harry Truman in 1952 and Richard Nixon in 1974, respectively, the only presidents ever to climb as high: 67, 66
8/08Percentage of U.S. children who think kids who wear glasses are smarter than those who do not: 66
2/09Number of Iraqi stray dogs that Operation Baghdad Pups has helped emigrate to the United States since 2003: 66
Number currently on the waiting list: 50
9/96Maximum legal length, in feet, of a limousine in California: 65
Length, in feet, of the longest one available for rental there: 66.5
9/85Percentage of Iowans who say that music videos are one of the “least useful changes” in modern life: 67
Who say that front-porch swings “should be brought back”: 57
Percentage who cannot name the region of the country William Faulkner wrote about: 67
Percentage who say that the United States should maintain its military strength no matter what it costs: 67
3/90Number of times the phrase “do the right thing” has been used in Congress since Spike Lee’s film was released last June: 67
Number of times the phrase was used in reference to a congressional pay raise: 16
Number of times it was used in reference to racial issues: 1
7/90Percentage of American women who said in 1970 that men were “basically kind, gentle, and thoughtful”: 67
Percentage who say this today: 51
8/90Percentage of veterinarians who say they have felt depressed after putting an animal to sleep: 67
5/94Percentage of Americans earning less than $15,000 per year who say that Americans are “materialistic”: 39
Percentage of Americans earning more than $50,000 per year who say this: 67
7/01Percentage of CPR attempts depicted on television that save the patient’s life: 67
Percentage in real life that do: 15
7/03Number of Grateful Dead concerts attended by columnist Ann Coulter: 67
10/06Percentage of volunteers in a four-year psychedelic-mushroom study who said they experienced “strong or extreme fear”: 31
Percentage who described the experience as “among the five most meaningful” in their lives: 67
Percentage of goods imported by the United States that are: 68
3/88Percentage of 1988 U.S. foreign economic aid that will go to Israel, Egypt, and the Philippines: 68
9/90Number of calls the Illinois Animal Poison Information Center received last year regarding pets swallowing marijuana: 68
Percentage change, since 1989, in foreign investment in U.S. stocks, bonds, and Treasury securities: -80
8/91Number of his first 77 decisions in which Supreme Court justice David Souter voted with Chief justice Rehnquist: 68