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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 04:36:01 EDT
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Sept. 16, 1992
    
SNAPSHOTS:
   A look at the news, money, sports, and lifestyle statistics 
that shape our world from the pages of USA TODAY.
    
GOOD AND BAD GOVERNMENT:
Departments in the federal government that people like the most 
and least:
Favorable
Postal Service       69%
Defense              64%
Unfavorable
Housing and Urban
  Development        45%
Justice              46%
Source: Roper Reports
    
SPEAKING IN TONGUES:
Berlitz International is selling a 67% stake to Japan's Fukutake 
Publishing. What languages it teaches foreign and U.S. executives 
here:
Language    Percent who study
English           26%
Spanish           25%
French            15%
German            10%
Japanese           8%
Other             16%
Source: Berlitz International
    
"BUY ME THIS, BUY ME THIS!":
How much more adults spend in a grocery stores if accompanied by a 
child:
        Percentage increase
Women          29%
Men            66%
Source: Health magazine, The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives 
Turn Into Public Commodities
    

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