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Maximum amount each of [Enron|Enron’s] 4,500 laid-off [Jobs|employees] would receive as part of a proposed settlement

: $13,500

Total amount the [GeorgeWBush|Bush] [Democracy|campaign] paid [Enron|Enron] and [Halliburton|Halliburton] for use of corporate [AirTravel|jets] during the 2000 recount

: $15,400

Number of [Transportation|traffic] tickets issued in [July|July] by [Canada|British Columbia] [Policing|police officers] posing as squeegee [Men|men]

: 90

Percentage of Americans who say vacationing leaves them tired

: 54

[Hours|Hours] that the [NewYorkCity|Empire State Building] was lit “Snapple [Color|Yellow]” in [August|August]

: 8

Size in acres of a billboard that a [China|Chinese] town is constructing next to its ancient giant [Buddha|Buddha]

: 10

Number of [Japan|Japanese] [McDonalds|McDonald’s] that began offering broadband [Internet|Internet] access in [May|May]

: 9

Number of [Teenager|teenagers] enrolled last [Summer|summer] in Secure Corps, a “[HomelandSecurity|homeland security] [Education|training]” camp in [Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]

: 92

Number of [Entertainment|Hollywood] [Cinema|films] released in the last two years for which [OrrinHatch|Senator Orrin Hatch] has co-written songs

: 2

Months since his release from [Prison|prison] that [Nuclear|nuclear] [Science|scientist] Wen Ho Lee has been looking for work

: 24

Months that Vice President [DickCheney|Dick Cheney] has [Mendacity|refused] to release documents related to current U.S. [Energy|energy] policy

: 16

Average amount the company paid each of its 140 top executives last year

: $5,300,000

Grant given a [Maryland|Maryland] professor last [October|October] to create an online archive of [Internet|dot-com-era] [Business|business] plans

: $300,500

Percentage change in U.S. spending on border enforcement since [1990s|1995]

: +200

Percentage change since then in the estimated number of illegal [Immigration|immigrants] living in the United States

: +57

Number of corrections professionals who attended a mock riot at a former [WestVirginia|West Virginia] [Prison|prison] in [May|May]

: 1,235

Minimum number of U.S. universities where [Holiday|Halloween] celebrations last year included at least one [Student|student] in [Race|blackface]

: 4

Rank of [RichardNixon|Richard Nixon] masks among the top U.S. costumer’s best-selling political masks over the last five years

: 1

Number of the last six [USPresident|U.S. presidents] who bested their opponents in the company’s [Democracy|election]-year [Holiday|Halloween] mask sales

: 6

Percentage of Americans who blame [BillClinton|Bill Clinton’s]”[Morality|moral] failings” for the current [Business|business] scandals

: 51

Percentage who blame [GeorgeWBush|President] Bush’s “close ties to big [Business|corporations]”

: 46

Percentage of [CEO|CEOs] who blame CEOs for the scandals

: 69

Value of the [DowJones|Dow Jones industrial average] in [1990s|1996] when [AlanGreenspan|Alan Greenspan] warned of investors’ “irrational exuberance”

: 6,437

Average number of U.S. [Media|print-media] references to “our new reality” each week since [September11|September 11], 2001

: 1.4

Average number of words of [Entertainment|MTV’s] The Osbournes censored per minute

: 2.8

Number of [Argentina|Argentines] who have applied to be on a new [Jobs|job]-search game show since [April|April]

: 6,500

Chance that one of the 264 barrios of Medellin, [Colombia|Colombia], is controlled by right-wing paramilitaries

: 1 in 4

Number of [Army|U.S. soldiers] missing in action since [1940s|1945]

: 88,135

Minimum annual U.S. spending on searching for missing [Business|soldiers]

: $100,000,000

Amount of [Iraq|Iraq’s] [Oil|oil] revenue since [1990s|1996] spent on anything but humanitarian programs, [Kuwait|Kuwaiti] reparations, or [UnitedNations|U.N.] costs

: 0

Percentage of Americans who said in [August|August] that they had a clear idea of [Halliburton|why] the U.S. would consider attacking [Iraq|Iraq]

: 56

Percentage who say they remain in the settlements for the quality of life

: 75

Percentage of [Israel|Israeli] settlers who say they would respect a government decision for them to leave the settlements

: 68

Number who have returned home since then

: 1,500,000

Number of [Afghanistan|Afghan] [Refugee|refugees] whose 2002 return the [UnitedNations|U.N.] budgeted for in [January|January]

: 800,000

Percentage of seats in [Pakistan|Pakistan’s] parliamentary [Democracy|elections] this month that will be reserved for [Women|women]

: 19

Number of [Literature|bookies] [Justice|arrested] in [India|India] in [March|March] on charges they took bets on [Hinduism|Hindu]-[Islam|Muslim] riots

: 101
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