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Your support makes all the difference.Increase in world population expected by 2000: 1,000,000,000
Number of times that 4.1 million miles of baking foil thrown away by Americans every year would wrap round the planet: 164
Kopecs bought by a US dollar in 1987: 60
In mid-1993: 120,000
Schedule D tax uncollected and written off in 1982: pounds 52,763,000
In 1992: pounds 703,422,000
Percentage of university professors who are women: 3
Percentage of UK labour-force's growth to 2006 that will be women: 80
Households homeless in Manchester in 1979: 3,370
In 1992: 14,120
British taxpayer support for Indonesia's oil- seeking South Sumatra Geological Survey: pounds 2,260,000
For Indonesian libraries: pounds 75,000
Percentage of cinemas which are still single- screen: 48
Number of Berlin cabs planned to be powered by rapeseed-oil fuel: 200
Wars world-wide per year in the 1950s: 12
In the 1970s: 32
In the 1980s: 40
In 1992: 52
Sources: UNCED; RM/ British Alcan/ Massachussetts Department of Environmental Management; Nature; ibid; Treasury; ibid; THES; Dept of Employment (projected); DoE; ibid; Overseas Development Agency; ibid; Cinema Advertising Association; Mayor of Berlin; Hamburg University; ibid; ibid; ibid.
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