By the Numbers

367

Total citations issued in 2007 in Door County for driving under the influence

129

Number that were second offenses or higher (238 were 1st time)

2,000

Number of foreign-led acquisitions of U.S. companies in 2007

405.4

Billion dollars, the value of those acquisitions

1/3

The portion of properties purchased in July that involved foreclosed homes or homes sold at a loss by owners who had no alternative

32,000

Number of Americans who committed suicide last year (twice the number killed in homicides)

6

Percent of people rescued in the midst of a suicide attempt on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge who went on to kill themselves

1

Trillion dollars, estimated cost projection of the Iraq War by the conservative American Enterprise Institute in 2006

50

Billion dollars, the high-end estimate of the cost of the Iraq war then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld touted in January of 2003

1

Trillion dollars, the amount it would cost to supply every American driver with a plug-in hybrid electric car

Sources: Door County Clerk of Courts; New York Times; National Association of Realtors; New York Times Magazine; "Blessed Unrest"