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Shoppers apprehended by retailers for theft in 1992: 440,000
Approximate value per song to Paul McCartney of his 200 top compositions: pounds 2,100,000
Average payment by public arts bodies for contemporary music piece: pounds 1,800
Regular weekly home-delivery orders of hot gourmet meals by one customer of Room Service Ltd, London: pounds 800
Increase in the prison population expected by 2000: 5,700
Miles juggernauts would queue loaded with chocolate confectionery eaten by Britons in 1988: 198
Miles estimated in 1993: 212
Tons of UK oil in 1991: 91,600,000
Expected in 2010: 18,000,000
Cars fuelled by sugar-cane-based ethanol in Brazil: 4,300,000
Coca-Cola's world-wide annual advertising budget: dollars 600,000,000
Tons of waste paper the USA will dispose of in 1995 after recycling and re-use: 50,000,000
Tons bought by Spain in 1992: 500,000
Complaints to the ITC about menstrual pad TV commercials in 1992: 742
Sources: The Antique Collector; The Grocer; RM/RM/Business Age: Rich 500 (wealth estimated at pounds 420m); Musical Times; Caterer and Hotelkeeper; Home Office; RM/The Grocer; ibid; BP/RM/Arthur Anderson Petroleum Services; ibid; New Scientist No 1891; Campaign; Georgia-Pacific Inc/Lloyd's List; ibid; Independent Television Commission Annual Report 1992.
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