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
7/84Percentage of Americans who think science and technology may destroy the human race: 74
2/86Percentage increase, since 1974, in the number of self-employed men: 12
9/86Percentage of practicing physicians who belonged to the American Medical Association in 1962: 74
3/88Estimated number of employees on the congressional payroll who are relatives of representatives or senators: 74
Percentage who say that most of their colleagues oppose such a program: 74
6/89Percentage of American fathers who say that they should share childcare equally with their wives: 74
Percentage who say that they do: 13
8/90Number of international terrorist organizations in 1969: 13
Number today: 74
12/92Percentage change, since 1980, in the number of military personnel and dependents seeking psychiatric care: +74
9/95Ratio of the median U.S. waiting period for a human liver transplant to the amount of time Mickey Mantle waited: 74:1
12/97Percentage change since last year in the number of U.S. senators and representatives who admit to being smokers: -22
Number of legislators who drove foreign cars in Washington last year but used domestic cars at home: 74
12/97Percentage of first-year medical students who believe a knowledge of nutrition is important to their career: 74
6/98Percentage of African-Americans who wish Bill Clinton could run for a third term: 74
7/00Percentage change in the number of U.S. beach closures or pollution advisories between 1997 and 1998: +74
3/04Days after a columnist outed an undercover CIA officer last year that the Justice Department began investigating it: 74
2/06Percentage of U.S. conservatives who report having experienced déjà vu: 63
6/06Percentage of Chinese who say the free market is “the best system on which to base the future of the world”: 74
7/06Percentage of Peruvians who say their nation needs leaders who “impose order” and “authority”: 74
9/06Average income of an African American today, expressed as a percentage of the average income of a white American: 74
Average income of an American child of Mexican immigrants, expressed in the same terms: 71
3/08Percentage of single U.S. women in their twenties who are “very” or “extremely” willing to marry for money: 61
By corporations: 75
9/85Vietnamese and Russians killed on screen in Rambo: 75
Americans: 1
1/86Percentage of unemployed Americans who receive no unemployment benefits: 75
1/86Number of Cocaine Anonymous meetings held weekly in Los Angeles: 75
Number that were held there three years ago: 6
Percentage of West Germans who say this: 52
Who say they want to be president of a company: 75
1/89Number of the 83 Appeals Court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan who are white men: 75
1/89Percentage of all Tiffany & Co. shopping bags that are manufactured in El Salvador: 75
10/91Cost of a two-square-foot “personal meadow” from Zezé Flowers in Manhattan: $75
7/92Price paid at the Chicago White Sox Charities auction in April for a vial of infield dirt from Comiskey Park: $75
10/92Number of calories in a chocolate chip cookie baked according to Hillary Clinton’s recipe: 68
Number of calories in a chocolate chip cookie baked according to Barbara Bush’s recipe: 75
3/93Percentage of Mexican-Americans who say there are too many immigrants in the United States: 75
11/93Number of copyright-infringement cases brought by the estate of Dr. Seuss since his death last year: 75
4/95Days in jail served by a Michigan man last year after being convicted of secretly videotaping people using his bathroom: 75
12/95Fee charged by a California design firm to place a string of lights on an outdoor Christmas tree, lights not included: $75
9/96Percentage of the proceeds of last April’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis auction that went for taxes: 75
2/98Daily fee that Stanford Medical Center pays research subjects for ingesting E. coli bacteria: $75
1/99Number of emergency-room visits in 1997 by elderly Americans injured while snowboarding: 75
4/99Miles per hour at which a New York TV station clocked a police van driving Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to lunch last year: 75
7/01Percentage of Americans who would allow “churches and other houses of worship” to seek federal funds for charitable work: 75
10/02Percentage of Israeli settlers who say they would respect a government decision for them to leave the settlements: 68
Percentage who say they remain in the settlements for the quality of life: 75
4/03Percentage of Americans who say that other countries’ interests are considered in making U.S. foreign policy: 75
4/05Price a California company charges for a chain-mail condom: $75
8/08Number of corporations that have publicly committed to sponsoring the Democratic National Convention, as of June: 75
Number for the Republican National Convention: 50
8/08Percentage of all income gains during the Bush Administration that have gone to the top 1 percent of earners: 75
Number of associates with the last name Jackson he has dubbed “Action Jackson”: 2
Percentage of West Germans who say this: 33
12/89Percentage of Americans who consider themselves environmentalists: 76
4/90Percentage of all billboards in white neighborhoods in Baltimore that advertise alcohol and tobacco: 20
2/91Percentage increase in pressure on the ball of the foot exerted by walking in a shoe with a three-inch heel: 76
7/92Percentage of female college students who say they would rather have sex with Harry Connick Jr. than Axl Rose: 76
7/94Percentage of African-Americans who say that whites are “insensitive to other people”: 76
Percentage who say that Asian-Americans are “unscrupulously crafty and devious in business”: 42
Number who are not Willard Scott: 75
3/97Percentage of the Pentagon’s daily Gulf War records of soldiers’ chemical exposure that are missing: 76
11/97Number of radio and television stations shut down by the Yugoslav government since last year: 76
11/97Number of NBA players with shaved heads in the season before Michael Jordan first shaved his: 6
Number last season: 76
7/98Amount Bill Clinton earned last year in residuals for his 1992 saxophone performance on Arsenio Hall: $76
10/01Percentage change in the incidence of worker contamination at Los Alamos labs between 1993 and 1995: +76
Chances that an accident there in 1994 resulted in a “loss of control of radioactive material”: 2 in 3
Chance that an accident resulted in a “loss of control of classified matter”: 1 in 20
12/06Percentage of women who have an orgasm during sex with a man, according to an Australian study: 69
Percentage who do during sex with another woman: 76
12/07Percentage of Democrats who think that Hillary Clinton is proposing to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq within a year: 76
11/08Number of the 77 applications to protest during the Beijing Olympics this summer that were denied: 1
Number that were withdrawn by the petitioners or suspended for incorrect paperwork: 76
7/89Percentage of Americans who say that Soviet aggression is “a very serious threat” to national security: 50
Percentage who say that global environmental problems are “a very serious threat” to national security: 77
10/89Number of bystanders shot in Los Angeles in 1986: 10
1/90Percentage of Americans who said in 1984 that the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union was a “very important” problem: 70
Percentage of Americans who say today that environmental degradation is a “very serious” threat to national security: 77
4/94Number of wiretaps and listening devices authorized by law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. each month last year: 77
11/95Ratio of campaign funds raised by presidential candidates as of June 1995 to the amount raised as of June 1991: 77:1
5/96Number of Vietnamese in Vietnam in 1969, per US. soldier stationed there: 77
8/99Number of state and county fairs that participated in last year’s National Best Spam Recipe Contest: 77
9/01Percentage of U.S. employers who say that a high-school graduate “has at least learned the basics”: 39
12/04Number of major weapons systems the Pentagon has under development: 77
Ratio of the original estimate of these programs’ total cost to the estimate today: 1:2
3/06Number of the 193 “ laughing episodes ” during Supreme Court arguments last term that were caused by Antonin Scalia: 77
Number caused by Clarence Thomas: 0
4/06Percentage of Canadians who say that immigrants are a “good influence” on their nation: 77
Percentage of Americans and Germans, respectively, who say this: 49, 35