Average hours per week a worker spends in business meetings: 5.6.
Percentage of workers that says those meetings are not useful: 71 percent.
Rank of business meetings among all the reasons workers say they're unproductive: 1.
Rank of "lack of communication" on the job: 2.
Rank of "lack of clear objectives" for their job: 3.
Number of days per week workers say they're productive: 3.
(Microsoft)

Year the term "trick or treat" was first quoted in print: 1927.
First year children in the US went door to door for candy on Halloween: 1934.
Percentage of households that give out Halloween candy now: 80 percent.
(Wikipedia)

Of the 2 million college freshmen in 2009, number whose parents earned more than $250,000 a year: 147,000.
Percentage of parents that says college tuition above $30k a year is too expensive: 60 percent.
That says college tuition above $50k is too expensive: 95 percent.
Cost of tuition this year at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY: $58,332.
(US News and World Report)

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