Numbers in the news.$8 billion ESTIMATED PORTION of the $80 billion spent on gift cards in 2006 that will never be redeemed by recipients. SOURCE: TOWER GROUP $54.3 million THE 2006 BONUS that was paid to LLoyd C. Blankfein, the chairman of Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. , a large New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of investment bank. This was in addition to his regular salary of $600,000. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES 50 NUMBER OF YEARS until most ocean seafood will be extinct if the current rate of pollution and overfishing Overfishing occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. This can occur in any body of water from a pond to the oceans. More precise biological and bioeconomic terms define 'acceptable level'. continues, according to a report by marine biologists. SOURCE: SCIENCE 20 DURATION, IN MONTHS, of the prison sentence given a woman in Japan for blasting rock music at her neighbor 24 hours a day. SOURCE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 147 SIZE, IN SQUARE MILES, of the new municipal wireless network--one of the world's largest--in Corpus Christi, Texas Corpus Christi is a coastal city and the county seat of Nueces CountyGR6 in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the region known as South Texas. . SOURCE: TIME |
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