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
1/93Average number of new clerical workers hired each day by U.S. physicians to do paperwork: 68
6/97Percentage change since 1995 in federal spending on court-appointed attorneys for death-penalty cases: +68
11/98Average percentage by which an American woman’s out-of-pocket medical spending exceeds that of an American man: 68
6/99Percentage change since 1991 in the number of U.S. inmates who were illegal-drug users at the time of their arrest: +68
9/00Percentage of death-penalty trials since 1976 that appeals courts have found to include “serious, reversible error”: 68
5/02Number of Manhattan’s 123 Starbucks outlets that are within two blocks of another one: 68
3/04Percentage of Americans living below the poverty level who voted in the 2000 presidential election: 38
7/06Percentage of U.S. workers who say they are confident that they will be able to live comfortably after retirement: 68
Percentage who have saved less than $25,000 toward retirement: 53
7/07Percentage of every dollar spent at a locally owned Chicago store that is retained or recirculated in the city: 68
2/09Percentage of Bhutanese who are currently happy, according to the country’s new pilot survey: 68
1/85Percentage of Midwesterners who judge their chances of going to heaven as good to excellent: 69
7/85Percentage of health articles in Cosmopolitan rated inaccurate by the American Council on Science and Health: 53
Of health articles in Prevention: 69
11/86Percentage of the $2.1 billion federal antidrug budget that goes to law enforcement: 69
That goes to educational programs: 1
9/87Percentage of Americans who say that parents should not be allowed to choose the sex of their child: 69
1/90Average increase, since 1980, in the amount of garbage an American discards each year, in pounds: 69
2/90Percentage of Democratic congresswomen who are pro-choice: 63
Percentage of Republican congresswomen who are pro-choice: 69
4/91Number of walls the size of the Vietnam Memorial it would take to list all the Vietnamese who died in the war: 69
11/91Percentage of Lithuanians who say that their country’s health-care system should be run mainly by the government: 33
Percentage of Americans who say that their country’s health-care system should be: 69
10/92Number of New York Times articles published this year in which the name Willie Horton was mentioned: 69
Number of articles published during the 1988 presidential campaign in which Horton was mentioned: 33
Number of the 55 no longer playing who never hit another: 11
5/95Ratio of Pentagon spending in Newt Gingrich’s home county last year to average Pentagon spending per county: 69:1
2/97Percentage of public-high-school teachers who favor banning students from kissing and hugging on school grounds: 69
2/99Estimated number of people, per 10,000, who died of starvation in one Sudanese village over ten days last July: 69
9/99Percentage of Americans who say Hillary Clinton’s campaign will be more successful if her husband doesn’t try to help: 69
10/02Percentage of Americans who blame Bill Clinton’s”moral failings” for the current business scandals: 51
Percentage who blame President Bush’s “close ties to big corporations”: 46
1/03Percentage of the $1.1 trillion in Iraqi oil contracts that are held by French or Russian companies: 69
6/03Average quality-of-life rating researchers assign U.S. children with cancer, on a scale of 1 to 100: 69
7/84Percentage of American men earning less than $5,000 a year who say they cheat on their wives: 16
12/85Percentage of doctors in 1960 who said patients should be told the truth about their cancer: 18
Percentage who say that today: 70
10/95Percentage of Americans who believe their financial situation is “at least somewhat” reflective of “God’s regard” for them: 70
2/06Average performance rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of top U.S. government managers who are political appointees: 62
Average for those who are career bureaucrats: 70
1/86Percentage of U.S. Steel’s revenues derived from businesses other than steel in 1981: 31
12/86Percentage of drug-related deaths caused by prescription drugs: 70
Who know how to jump-start a car: 70
12/88Percentage of presidential appointees who say they have trouble understanding financial disclosure forms: 70
12/89Percentage of Americans who have visited Washington, D.C.: 60
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70
1/90Approval rating of Mikhail Gorbachev among residents of Orange County, California, in 1989: 70
2/90Percentage of Redbook readers who say they would rather have their genitals permanently numbed than go deaf: 70
10/91Cost of a one-hour lesson in “ring psychology” at Slammers Wrestling Gym in Sun Valley, California: $70
8/92Percentage of Americans who say that President Bush has “mainly just talked about protecting the environment”: 70
11/92Percentage of the air-pollution-control equipment sold in America that is produced by foreign-owned companies: 70
1/93Percentage of New Yorker articles since Tina Brown became editor whose first sentence includes a person’s name: 70
3/93Number of pages of the December/January issue of Paris Vogue that were guest-edited by the Dalai Lama: 70
10/93Percentage of all shares of Japanese corporate stock that is owned by other Japanese companies: 70
8/94Speed, in miles per hour, of pitches hurled at the heads of human cadavers last year in tests of a new, safer baseball: 70
10/94Percentage change since 1985 in membership of the Flat Earth Research Society: +70
3/96Percentage of congressional campaign contributions made last year by the top ten corporate PACs that went to Republicans: 70
Percentage that went to Republicans in 1994: 41
8/97Percentage of Americans who believe Richard Nixon did nothing “worse than what other presidents have done”: 70
7/98Percentage of the lab animals launched aboard NASA’s Neurolab last April that died in orbit, snails excluded: 70
3/99Estimated percentage of Indonesian businesses that are in bankruptcy: 70
9/99Pages of the British royal family’s medical records found in a folder lying by the side of a Scottish road last March: 70
3/00Ratio of major party presidential primaries to be held before April this year to those held before April in 1984: 3:1
8/01Percentage of Palestinians working in Israel last summer who lost their job after Israel’s blockade began in October: 70
6/02Percentage of new state laws involving biotechnology that increase penalties for destroying genetically modified crops: 70
12/02Percentage by which the Pentagon’s September order for sunblock exceeded its last largest such order: 70
5/03Pounds of steel discovered to have been eaten away from the head of an Ohio nuclear reactor in February 2002: 70
Thickness in inches of the warped stainless steel that remained to prevent the reactor from rupturing into the air: 3/8
2/08Percentage of post-Katrina recovery contracts that were awarded without full and open competition: 70
7/08Number of John McCain’s 507 donation “bundlers” who are registered lobbyists: 70
Number of Barack Obama’s 361 bundlers who are: 14
2/87Price of a unit of whole blood in New York City in 1976: $29
Today: $70.75
11/86Percentage of Americans who don’t know how long a meter is: 66
Who don’t know who William Rehnquist is: 71
12/86Percentage of the 18,966 South Africans arrested for “unrest-related” offenses in 1985 who were under 20: 71
6/87Percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs who part their hair on the left: 71
8/91Percentage of Panamanians who say that the U.S. invasion of their country in 1989 “wounded the national soul”: 71
Percentage change in the number employed by the federal government: +5
3/98Percentage of Americans who believe Congress spends more time complaining about government than running it: 71
9/03Percentage of Palestinians who said in May that Osama bin Laden would “do the right thing” regarding world affairs: 71
Percentage who said that George Bush would: 1
11/04Percentage of Britons over the age of 50 who have hurt themselves attempting to open product packaging: 71
7/05Number of national parliaments that have a greater percentage of female members than the U.S. Congress: 71
Percentage who hear an “upper-class” or “BBC” voice: 30
11/05Number of journalists killed in Vietnam War during twenty years of war there: 63
Percentage of Americans as a whole who believe this: 64
3/90Percentage of Americans who say that in a democracy, personal freedom is more important than equality: 72
12/87Presidential Medals of Freedom awarded by President Reagan: 72
4/89Number of U.S. corporations that were not required to pay federal taxes in 1987: 16
4/89Percentage of Americans who say that “a schoolteacher is worth as much as a member of Congress”: 72
9/89Ratio of the average salary of an American CEO to that of an American public school teacher in 1960: 38:1
1/91Percentage of Americans in the Northeast who say they like to be told their waiter’s or waitress’s name: 57
Percentage of Americans in the West who say this: 72
2/91Percentage of U.S. firms with fewer than 100 workers that paid all employee health insurance premiums in 1980: 72
Percentage that do today: 48
9/94Percentage of sexually active teenagers who say they usually have sex in their own or their partner’s home: 72
7/95Percentage of Americans who believe citizens do not have the right to buy and store “large quantities of weapons”: 71
Percentage who say armed, antigovernment groups should be infiltrated “even if it infringes on their constitutional rights”: 72
1/96Percentage change since 1993 in the Pentagon’s recruitment advertising budget: +72
12/97Percentage of the 8,658 man-made objects orbiting the Earth that have been classified as “debris”: 72
3/98Percentage of American men under the age of 50 who own a pair of Dockers Khakis: 72
11/98Percentage of current members of Congress who voted for both the Communications Decency Act and the report’s release: 72
5/99Percentage change since 1997 in the annual number of people seeking asylum in Switzerland: +72
2/03Number of warring factions for which the world’s estimated 500,000 child soldiers have been enlisted to fight: 72
9/04Percentage of college students majoring in the humanities who say politics are relevant to their lives: 72
In Minneapolis: 73%
5/87Percentage of subway riders in Washington, D.C., who earn $25,000 or more annually: 73
1/89Percentage of U.S. Senators and Representatives who have been in office for more than four years: 73
Percentage of Politburo members who have been in office for more than four years: 25
5/89Percentage of Japanese 16- to 18-year-olds who say they “worry very much about almost everything”: 73
12/90Percentage of Americans who do not know that the United States supplied arms to Iraq during its war with Iran: 73
5/91Percentage change, since 1989, in total assets held by U.S. banks that the FDIC considers “threatened”: +73
6/92Percentage change, since 1990, in U.S. tobacco sales to the countries of the former Soviet Union: +73
2/95Percentage of Britons who say John Major’s Conservative Party seems “very sleazy and disreputable”: 73
Percentage change since then: +6
2/03Number of countries the Justice Department has advised since 1981 on the creation of freedom of information policies: 73
8/06Percentage of Americans living in hurricane-prone areas who had done nothing by May to prepare for this year’s storms: 73
11/06Percentage of Turkey’s residents in 2004 who supported their nation’s joining the European Union: 73
Percentage who do this year: 54