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Your support makes all the difference.Estimated British citizens whose body-clocks are disturbed by working outside regular daytime hours: 4,000,000
Male Texans over 20 years of age per Texan gun store: 334
Irish people seized under the Prevention of Terrorism Act since 1974: 7,192
Discharged: 6,298
Imprisoned for more than five years: 115
British telephones in 1977: 21,672,000
In 1990: 45,600,000
Estimated BT and Mercury telephone calls per day: 90,000,000
Private consumer spending per Briton in 1980: pounds 2,494
In 1990: pounds 6,347
Jetliners in and out of London's Heathrow Airport daily: 1,059
Expected with round-the-clock operations by 2016: 1,205
Pence English Nature spent per English dwelling on purchasing National Nature Reserves 1991-92: 0.004
Cigarettes smoked per Briton annually: 1,725
Per American: 2,252
World television sets in 1947: 170,000
In 1991: 750,000,000
Sources: Martin Moore-Ede, The 24-Hour Society; RM/Information Please Almanac/BBC News & Current Affairs; RM/BBC Newsnight/Home Office; ibid; ibid; RM/Euromonitor; ibid; RM/BT/Mercury Communications; RM/Euromonitor; ibid; BAA (1992); ibid; Dept of the Environment (pounds 81,944); Euromonitor; ibid; Connoisseur/Douglas Coupland, Generation X; ibid.
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