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Rank by the year 2000:
1

Value, per 1,000 board ft., of old-growth timber:
up to $3,000

Value, per 1,000 board ft., of second-growth timber:
up to $1,000

Estimated amount, per 1,000 board-feet, paid by Frederick Weyerhaeuser for 900,000 acres of Washington forest in 1903:
10 cents

Number of U.S. workers subject to electronic surveillance in the workplace:
20 million

Amount paid by the Mexican government and corporations to U.S. public relations firms to encourage congressional passage of NAFTA:
$25 million

Percent of Americans who've never heard of NAFTA:
49

Percent increase of advertising on network television in the last year:
10

Percent of U.S. prison inmates abused as children:
84

Number of U.S. children abused by adults yearly (from injury, neglect or sexual abuse):
2 million

For every 10 youth murdered in all industrialized countries, the number that occur in the U.S.:
9

The decline in world population projections by 2025 if all women had complete reproductive freedom:
1 billion

The number of people homeless at some point in any given year in King County.:
12,000-14,000

The percentage of homeless women who got that way because of domestic violence:
50

Number of total AIDS cases reported in King County as of September 1993:
3,348