FACTS BUSINESS AND POLITICS

Facts Business and Politics


-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
-There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com.
-The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
-Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
-If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.
-Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
-Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
-The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
-72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
-More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid.
-You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory.
-Former enemies, America and Russia now have a great deal in common - they both lead the world in locking people up.
-The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."