You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 3 counts Bill Cosby was found guilty on three counts of aggregated indecent assault Thursday for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in a suburb of Philadelphia in 2004. The counts carry up to 10 years in prison […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 2 models Ford will eliminate most of its traditional car offerings in North America, and plans to sell only two different types of traditional cars, the Mustang and the new Focus Active. The overwhelming majority of Ford sales in the U.S. […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 3 percent That is the percentage of Nicolas Cage’s movies that were sequels, the lowest of anyone in the top-25 grossing lead actors at the domestic box office. Other actors at that end of the originality spectrum include Robert De Niro, […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 5 percent The federal government awarded $25.4 billion in federal contracts to women-owned businesses in 2017, which constituted 5 percent of the money doled out that year. That small percentage is a high water mark, up from 3.25 percent of contracts […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 1 week An April 16 resolution in Nicaragua to lower pensions has been cancelled after a week of deadly protests. President Daniel Ortega was pressured by everyone from the U.S. to the pope to stop the violence. [Reuters] 4 murders “The […]