Numbers

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Elizabeth L. Bland, David Robinson and Rebecca Winters Sunday, July 21, 2002
    • 19 million Pounds of beef recalled last week because of potential E. coli contamination, the second largest such recall in U.S. history

    61 Number of deaths a year in the U.S. blamed on E. coli

    80% Estimated growth in the Securities and Exchange Commission's workload from 1991 to 2000

    20% Growth in the SEC's budget from 1991 to 2000

    9 Number of weeks in a row the Dow Jones average has dropped, as of last week, a 22.5% loss for that period

    33.7% Amount the Dow rose a year after a nine-week, 22.3% loss ending in June 1962

    28.5 Millions of people who watch C-SPAN weekly

    90 Percentage of C-SPAN viewers who voted in the 2000 presidential election

    Sources: AP, Centers for Disease Control, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post