Numbers in the news.24 Time, in seconds, that it takes radio shock jock shock jock n. Informal A host of a shock radio program. [shock (radio) + (disc) jock(ey).] Howard Stern to make $1,000; it takes the average police officer 43 hours to make the same amount. SOURCE: TIME 29% Percentage increase of in-car cell-phone talking from 2003 to 2006; there has been a 28 percent decline in car-radio listening. SOURCE: BRIDGE RATINGS 300,000+ Number of American schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school disciplined with corporal punishment corporal punishment, physical chastisement of an offender. At one extreme it includes the death penalty (see capital punishment), but the term usually refers to punishments like flogging, mutilation, and branding. Until c. during the 2002-2003 school year--usually one or two blows with a thick wooden paddle. SOURCE: THE 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 TIMES 65% Percentage of women 25-34 who pray electronic games, compared with 35 percent of men in that age group. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES 500,000 Average number of Hostess Twinkies snack cakes purchased daily in the United States. SOURCE: TIME |
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