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
7/07Percentage of Baghdad residents who have a family member or friend who has been wounded or killed since 2003: 77
7/07Amount that a Colorado state prisoner is paid to work a day as a field hand at a local farm: 60¢
2/86Percentage of Americans who say that birth control information should be available on television: 78
12/89Percentage of people who buy humorous greeting cards who say they think of themselves as funny: 78
7/03Number of Wisconsin accounting students given take-home tests to accommodate an Enron whistle-blower’s April speech: 78
Number later found to have cheated: 40
12/03Number of New York City eighth-graders deemed “proficient” on last year’s end-of-summer-school reading exam: 0
Percentage of those who took the test who were promoted to the ninth grade: 78
5/05Average number of mandatory anti-union meetings held by U.S. employers during a union election: 11
8/87Takes required to film Tip O’Neill’s Miller Lite commercial: 79
12/88Number of the world’s 129 billionaires who are not American: 79
12/94Percentage of Americans who believe non-unionized workers are likely to be fired for organizing a union drive: 79
1/95Percentage change between 1992 and 1993 in the infant-mortality rate in New York City’s Harlem: +60
1/95Price of an “authentic Russian street sweeper jacket,” from the Peter the Great Coat Company, in Minneapolis: $79
8/96Price of a prosthetic nose at Hello Gorgeous!!, a San Francisco boutique devoted to Barbra Streisand: $79
1/99Percentage of the funds spent fighting Alaska’s gay-marriage initiative last year that came from the Mormon Church: 79
7/01Number of U.S. major-league baseball players this year who are natives of the Dominican Republic: 79
Ratio of their combined salaries to the Dominican Republic’s military expenditures last year: 2:3
8/03Percentage change since 2001 in the median annual compensation of CEOs of major U.S. defense contractors: +79
11/03Average percentage of the Jewish vote won by the Democratic presidential candidate in the 1980s: 59
Average percentage since then: 79
7/04Minimum number of prisoners under the age of 17 or over the age of 70 held by coalition forces in Iraq last April: 79
9/05Average percentage of students in New York State’s majority-white school districts who graduate in four years: 79
10/08Percentage of Citigroup profits in 2006 that came from credit cards: 18
Percentage last year: 79
1/94Monthly fee charged by Courtscan, a Philadelphia company providing physicians with patients’ litigation records: $79.95
12/86Percentage of Americans in 1957 who said that an unmarried woman was “sick,” “neurotic,” or “immoral”: 80
6/89Estimated number of languages spoken by students in the Los Angeles public school system: 80
9/89Percentage of American colleges that do not require an American history course for graduation: 80
10/89Percentage of supermarket prices that end in the digit 9 or 5: 80
12/90Percentage of blacks in the New York City area who would have to move for the races there to be evenly distributed: 80
5/93Membership of Philadelphia’s Silent Meeting Club, at whose gatherings talking is forbidden: 80
6/93Percentage of Panamanians who say they want U.S. military bases to remain in their country past the year 2000: 80
12/96Days an Ohio public school suspended a 11-year-old girl last October for giving a Midol tablet to her classmate: 80
9/99Number of U.S. high schools that have hired a Massachusetts firm to test students’ hair for evidence of drug use: 80
2/01Percentage of doctors at a New York City hospital who report often not knowing the cost of the drugs they prescribe: 80
3/01Ratio of U.S. spending on the bombing of Serbia in 1999 to U.S. spending on Serbian election aid last fall: 80:1
6/01Estimated number of Bosnians who have been identified from the 4,000 bags of remains from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre: 80
3/02Percentage of Americans in November who believed the government was censoring news from the war in Afghanistan: 59
Percentage of these Americans who thought such censorship was “a good idea”: 80
6/03Percentage of cases of communicable diseases that California medical professionals are required to report that go unreported: 80
3/04Percentage of U.S. defendants who require a public defender: 80
9/06Percentage of Americans in 1983 who thought it was “possible to start out poor in this country… and become rich”: 57
Percentage who think this today: 80
8/08Maximum per-day purchase of rice, in pounds, that Sam’s Club has limited each customer to since April: 80
3/86Percentage of Americans who say they believe “most” or “all” of what Ronald Reagan says: 67
Who say they believe “most” or “all” of what Dan Rather says: 81
5/00Percentage of Americans earning $50,000 or less who have watched Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 57
11/00Points by which the average SAT score of a home-schooled student exceeds that of other U.S. students: 81
2/02Minimum number of criminal defamation lawsuits pending against journalists and cartoonists by Panamanian officials: 81
12/07Average amount that men spent in a store that used a “masculine” fragrance, in a Washington State University study: $81
5/87Percentage of Americans who say “of the people, by the people, for the people” is in the Constitution: 82
Who say “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is in the Constitution: 45
9/89Percentage of U.S. counties in which no doctor’s offices, clinics, or hospitals perform abortions: 82
Percentage who say the quality of the U.S. health-care system is good or excellent: 33
9/94Percentage change, since 1992, in civil-rights violations by US. colleges, according to the Department of Education: +82
6/95Percentage of all second- and third-strike felony convictions in California this past year that were for nonviolent offenses: 82
6/96Percentage of Americans who believe that “most of us buy and consume far more than we need”: 82
11/99Percentage of Americans who said in November 1991 that they had not “heard enough” about Bill Clinton: 82
2/06Minimum number of American colleges and universities that offer programs in video-game design: 82
2/09Percentage of unfaithful female multimillionaires who say they plan to spend less on their paramours this year: 15
1/85Percentage of Russian soldiers God will kill at the end of the world, according to Jerry Falwell: 83
10/03Percentage of Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza who say they would relocate if compensated: 83
2/04Estimated percentage of the 2.9 million U.S. jobs lost since March 2001 that have not reappeared abroad: 83
8/04Percentage change since then in the number of people serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison: +83
11/05Percentage change since January in the total value of Saudi Arabian stocks: +83
1/07Annual budget of Miami’s police department, expressed as a percentage of the production cost of the film Miami Vice: 83
4/08Minimum number of homicides committed in the last full seasons of the three Law & Order TV shows: 83
8/84Percentage of Chicago restaurant managers who say they allow patrons to smoke cigarettes: 84
1/91Percentage of male college students who say that “some women look as though they’re just asking to be raped”: 84
5/95Ratio of the number of Chinese who own a television set to those who have hot running water: 84:1
8/95Number of Russians injured on escalators in the Moscow Metro last year who were drunk at the time: 84
10/96Percentage change since 1994 in the number of threats of violence received by members of Congress: +84
12/98Number of individual charges contained in the 8 ethics complaints brought against Newt Gingrich since 1994: 84
8/05Percentage change since 1996 in the average recruitment cost per new U.S. soldier: +84
12/07Percentage of U.S. CEOs who believed this spring that the economy was either “good” or “excellent”: 84
11/84Percentage increase, since 1970, in the number of adult Americans who live with their parents: 85
3/86Percentage of the intelligence collected by U.S. agencies that is acquired by technical means: 85
Percentage that is acquired by agents: 15
2/86Percentage of all hostage deaths in airplane hijackings since 1968 that occurred during rescue attempts: 85
8/89Estimated percentage of all the scientists who ever lived who are alive today: 85
9/89Percentage of Chinese teenagers who can correctly identify the size of the world’s population: 85
Percentage of American adults who can: 35
2/91Percentage of all valentines that are sent by women: 85
Percentage today: 56