Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.snap From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: snap Tue, Jul 7 1992 Date: Tue, 7 Jul 92 05:13:30 EDT Message-ID: 07-07 0000 cc cc July 7, 1992 SNAPSHOTS: A look at the news, money, sports, and lifestyle statistics that shape our world from the pages of USA TODAY. DRIVE FOR VOTERS: President Bush may veto a bill recently passed by Congress that would automatically register driver's license applicants as voters. Percentage of 18-year-olds in 1990 who: Had a driver's license 68.4% Were registered to vote 27.5% Source: Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Census Bureau STOCKS GOING PUBLIC: Low interest rates and high stock prices made it attractive for companies to raise money by selling stocks and bonds to the public. Companies issued a record amount of stocks and bonds the first six months of this year: Jan.-June 1991 $272 billion Jan.-June 1992 $437 billion Sources: Securities Data, IDD Information Services MORE MEN COACHING WOMEN: Percentage of women's intercollegiate team coaches who are female: 1972 90% 1982 52% 1992 48% Source: "Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal Study" by R. Vivian Acosts and Linda Jean Carpenter WHO IS ILLITERATE IN THE USA?: The perception Same for both sexes 47% More men than women 46% More women than men 4% The reality Illiterate men 17% Illiterate women 20% Source: Bruskin Goldring Research telephone interview of 1,000 adults; Lauback Literacy Action This article is copyright 1992 Gannett News Service. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM