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The following companies rate the financial condition of corporations and municipalities issuing bonds. Their ratings are available online and at many public libraries.
* Standard & Poor’s
* Moody’s Investors Services
* Weiss Ratings
About 52.5 million people in the US watched the "Friends" series finale in 2004, one of the most-watched TV episodes of the 2000s.
About 76 million people watched the "Seinfeld" finale in 1998.
About 44 million people watched the 1953 "I Love Lucy" episode in which Little Ricky is born, more than watched President Eisenhower's inauguration the next day.
"Cheers" ranked near the bottom of the ratings in its first season and was almost canceled.
About 80 million people watched the "Cheers" finale in 1993.
Bell peppers have a Scoville rating of zero.