LELAND'S JOURNAL

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Facts and Figures from around the Farm

July/August 1997

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Number of films Roger Corman made in 1996:

30

Number of films shown at Sunday Night Flicks in 1996:

31

Number of films shown at Sunday Night Flicks since 1937:

1,829

Budget for Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Jurassic Park:

$60 million

Budget for Carnosaur, Roger Corman's 1993 parody of Jurassic Park:

$4 million


Stanford operating budget in 1947:

$7.1 million

Stanford operating budget in 1997:

$1.4 billion

Percent of Stanford budget provided by federal government in 1947:

10

Percent of Stanford budget provided by federal government in 1997:

40


Percent of mothers from the class of 1981 who stayed home at least a year to care for an infant:

57

Percent of fathers from the class of '81 who stayed home at least a year to care for an infant:

4

Percent of women in the United States who think they're doing a better job than their mothers:

11

Percent of women in the United States who think they're doing a worse job than their mothers:

56

SOURCES:(1) Concorde-New Horizons Corp.; Stanford Student Enterprises; (2) Stanford annual financial reports; (3). Cream of the Crop, Herant Katchadourian; The Pew Research Centerbecky heavner

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