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 Information begins with facts, which can be assembled to identify trends. Put it all together to derive knowledge. Presenting Chief Executive's INfact.
1. Average S&P 500 increase over 30 years when an American model is on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue | 13.9 percent
2. When a model from another country is portrayed | 7.2 percent
3. Amount by which the combined 2007 revenues of Honeywell International and Altria Group underperformed the revenues of Bank of America and Chevron, the two companies that replaced them on the Dow Jones Industrials | $257,333,000
4. Percentage of CEOs who are not directors of their own companies | 7 percent
5. The number of outside boards the average CEO sits on | 0.8
6. Number of CEOs hired externally in 2007 among Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies | 2
7. Decline from 1999 to 2006 in the number of chief operating officers (COOs) | 28
8. The average fortune demanded by women when it comes to "marrying for money" | $2.5 million
9. The fortune demanded by men | $1.1 million
10. Amount Americans gave to charity in 2006 | $295 billion
11. Percent of gifts that came from corporations | 4.3 percent
12. Value of U.S. charitable giving expressed as a percentage of GDP | 1.7%
13. Number of the world's nations, besides the U.S., whose health care spending is more than 13 percent of GDP | zero
14. Annual amount by which McKinsey estimates the U.S. is "overpaying" for health care | $477 billion
15. Fraction of U.S. health care spending to total global healthcare spending | half
16. Rank of U.S. among the World Health Organization's list of the world's best health systems | 37
17. Difference between the average life expectancy of the wealthiest 10 percent of the population over the least wealthy 10 percent for the years 2000-2002 | 4.5 years
18. Difference for the years 1980-1982 | 2.8 years
19. The average amount spent on luxury items by affluent consumers from the second to the third quarter of 2007, a decrease of 21 percent | $12,142
20. Percentage of Americans who have by March 2008 made vacation plans for the summer | 16 percent
21. Percentage that did so by March 2007 | 48 percent
22. Rate of annual pay increase for CEOs in the companies of the Dow Jones Industrials, 1997-2007 | 15.1 percent
23. Propensity of women office workers, over their male counterparts, to disclose their computer passwords to strangers masquerading as market researchers with the lure of a chocolate bar as an incentive | 45% of women vs. 10% men.
24. Number of new "major" airports China is slated to open by 2020 | 97
25. Number of new airports expected to open in the U.S. in the same period | 2
26. Only U.S. state that does not have a primary airport | Delaware
27. Amount raised from an IPO of shares in Visa on March 18, a U.S. record | $17.9 billion
28. Toyota's per-car labor-cost advantage over General Motors, 2008 | $1,394
29. GM's predicted per-car labor cost advantage over Toyota by 2011 | $108
30. Value of the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar on April 28, 2008 | 98.75 cents
31. One year percent change in the number of visitors from Canada to the U.S., 2006-2007 | +11 percent
32. Jump in eBay sales by Americans to buyers in Canada in October 2007 from a year earlier | 40 percent
33. Cost to the U.S. Mint to manufacture each nickel coin | 7.7 cents
34. Estimated number of U.S. coins going unused in the U.S. | 150 billion
35. Value of unused coins per household | $90
36. Percent of companies that published their 2006 annual reports as "10-K wraps," up from 16 percent in 2002 | 54 percent
37. Percent of companies in 2007 that created an online annual report-not just an electronic version of the traditional annual report | 35 percent
38. Number of trees saved by the decision of Invitrogen to produce a video annual report instead of printing 21,000 copies | 325
39. Value expected to be injected into the economy from the U.S. economic stimulus program | $42.9 billion
40. Estimated time, in hours, it will take to fly from London to Sydney on a beyond-the-atmosphere space plane being developed by Europe's EADS Astrium | 4
41. Estimated cost per ticket aboard the proposed four passenger craft for the 10,600-mile trip | $315,000
John Kador can be contacted at jkador@jkador.com
Sources: 1-2 Bespoke Investment Group; 3 CEO INfact research; 4-7 Spencer Stuart; 8-9 Prince & Associates; 10-12 Giving USA Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation; 13,16 World Health Organization; 14-15 McKinsey & Co.; 17-18 Department of Health and Human Services; 19 Unity Marketing; 20-21 American Research Group; 22 DolmatConnell & Partners; 23 Infosecurity Europe; 24-26 General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC), CEO INfact research; 27 BusinessWeek; 28-29 Center for Automotive Research; 30-32 PriceRunner; 33 U.S. Mint; 34-35 Coinstar; 36-37 National Investor Relations Institute; 38 Invitrogen; 39 National Retail Federation; 40-41 EADS Astrium  | 
