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$ in pay cuts that Northwest Airlines workers agreed to take beginning in 1993:
$886 million

$ in bonuses that Northwest Airlines CEO John Dasburg was awarded in 1993, in addition to his regular salary of $464,000:
$1,200,000

% of Seattle's Central District businesses that are black-owned:
1%

# of bus drivers in the Northshore School District who became ill due to diesel fumes from poorly ventilated buses in 1992, some of whom have since developed full-blown chemical sensitivity:
20

$ Consolidated Freightways of Portland, Oregon gave to help defray costs of a 1993 Christmas party for its workers:
$1.25 per worker

$ Consolidated Freightways spent on a separate Christmas party for the company executives:
$40,000

$ in contributions that Oregon senator Bob Packwood received from health care and insurance industry sources in 1991-92:
$402,247

$ the health care and insurance industries gave to US Senate and House campaigns from 1979-92:
$153 million

# of Americans killed by workplace hazards since the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) was passed 20 years ago:
2 million

# per year of US workers killed, injured, or made sick on the job:
7 million

# of new substances appearing in the workplace every year, the vast majority of which are unregulated by OSHA:
1,000 to 3,000

The average fine OSHA gave in 1990 to companies with serious safety violations:
$365

% of Germans who know who Boris Yeltsin is:
93%

% of Mexicans who know who Boris Yeltsin is:
67%

% of Americans who know who Boris Yeltsin is:
46%

Fraction of the world's population that lives in the US:
1/20

Fraction of the world's energy that's consumed in the US:
1/4

% of global warming caused by energy production and consumption:
60%

Average miles per gallon of new cars in the US:
28mpg