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Of cellular telephone companies:
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1993 salary of book wholesaler Kip Bertram, employing 200:
pounds 580,000
Average upper-sector pay of Institute of Directors chairmen employing 200:
pounds 135,000
Percentage of Britain's skylarks lost in the last 20 years:
80
Percentage of the UK designated sites of special scientific interest:
7.5
SSSIs threatened by road-building plans:
161
Average annual expenditure of one of the Prime Minister's staff on official cars:
pounds 3,846
Rival Colombian gangs exporting cocaine:
180
Years a USA golfer could play on a different course each week:
261
Average hours per week US parents spent with their children in 1965:
30
In 1985:
17
Pardons and commutations of sentence granted by President Franklin D Roosevelt:
6,687
By President George Bush:
39
Year Alaska king crabs population collapsed from over-fishing:
1982
Five-year pay deal of newscaster Peter Jennings on the USA's ABC TV network:
dollars 35,000,000
Polluting factories in Taiwan:
90,000
Sources: Business Age 39; ibid; The Bookseller 1993/24; IoD Directors' R pounds wards 1993/4; New Scientist 1905/1906/Graham Wynne, RSPB; English Nature; ibid; Prime Minister (parliamentary reply to Alan Williams MP)/Staff=130/RM; New Statesman & Society Vol 6/283; RM/New Scientist 1892 (13,600 courses); Etzioni, A. The Parenting Deficit, 1993 Demos; ibid; Krantz, Les: America By the Numbers, Houghton Mifflin; ibid; National Geographic 184/5; Variety, 29 Nov 93; National Geographic 184/5.
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