• They account for about 90 percent of spending for education, and they account for about 40 percent of spending when it comes to higher education.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Homeland security sales currently account for 48% of revenue, while medical imaging and monitoring bring in 24%, and other applications like photo sensors for industry and laser systems for the military account for 28% of business.

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  • Still, wealthier households account for a disproportionate share of consumer spending: About 20 percent of Americans account for about 40 percent of spending.

    NPR: Average US Household Far From Regaining Its Wealth

  • EVPs for different segments of the talent market, and particularly for different geographies, which account for most of the differences in what employees are looking for.

    ECONOMIST: Masters of the universe

  • Homes account for 22% of all of the energy consumed in the U.S., according to the Department of Energy, and heating and cooling account for 54% of the total.

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  • Benjamin Fulford in Tokyo (also twice, for an early report on huge multinational stakes in gas drilling off Russia's Sakhalin Island and a profile of a frustrated inventor at Toshiba) and Deborah Orr in New York, for her account of the Barilla pasta family.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • So that as I said before, the chronically ill that account for 20 percent -- or the 20 percent of chronically ill patients that account for 80 percent of the costs, that they're getting better treatment.

    CNN: Transcript of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate

  • As a substitute for an account of what happened, it is a cop-out.

    ECONOMIST: The Ottoman empire

  • Check back next week for his account of the sailing.

    CNN: 100 years later, Titanic's allure still strong

  • It may also be a minor error of judgment on Mr Rogan's part to have relied so heavily on Hassanein Heikal, an Egyptian journalist, for his account of Anwar Sadat.

    ECONOMIST: The history of the Arabic-speaking peoples

  • Written in the style of Chuck Colson, the Watergate conspirator who in adversity re-found his Christian faith, the book will be closely studied for its account of what actually took place at the Ritz.

    ECONOMIST: Jonathan Aitken

  • Four different outbreaks of measles account for 69 of the cases in Mid and West Wales with 14 cases related to an outbreak in South Pembrokeshire, 46 cases in Llanelli, four in Burry Port and five in Neath Port Talbot.

    BBC: Hospital treats four for measles

  • For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by Simon Singh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.

    ECONOMIST: The quest to explain the structure of the universe

  • That includes the five countries that account for 50 percent of child deaths worldwide (India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and Ethiopia) and the 19 other countries that account for the next 30 percent of deaths.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • At the Warwick Business School, in Great Britain, for example, the economic tigers of Asia now account for nearly a quarter of post-MBA jobs.

    FORBES: The Business School Beat

  • Its shoppers account for only 6% of the world's consumer spending, but, according to figures released by Bain Consulting last month, they now account for 20% of global sales of luxury goods.

    ECONOMIST: Free exchange

  • But record company revenues for CDs and music DVDs - which account for most of the market - dropped 6.7%.

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Coldplay top 2005's global charts

  • With potential civil fraud penalties equal to 75% of the unpaid taxes, FBAR penalties of up to 50% of the amount in the account for each of six years of noncompliance, and a host of other penalties for failing to file other forms related to foreign entities, this program offered a very significant reduction in civil penalties.

    FORBES: Expert View

  • Chronic diseases, which are often preventable, are responsible for 7 of 10 deaths among Americans each year and account for 75 percent of the nation's health spending.

    WSJ: White House to Unveil List of Free Preventative Services

  • As of now, cable and DSL connections account for most of that growth.

    FORBES: Seven Ways To Get Broadband

  • The history of women's boxing is somewhat different from that of many other sports, which may account for some of the controversies which have surrounded it.

    BBC: Women in boxing over the years

  • In one case plaintiff Dewey Morgan admitted in his deposition to lying on his questionnaire, and the other case was pulled, says Beisner, because plaintiff Scott Landry had a history of cocaine and alcohol abuse that could account for most of his symptoms.

    FORBES: Twitch & Shout

  • Twenty percent of people account for 70 percent of health-care spending, according to Ed Howard, of the Alliance for Health Reform.

    CNN: Patients' rights debate: Care vs. cost

  • Less than 2% of films account for 80% of box-office returns.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • Since Japan and the rest of Asia account for 30% of world trade, competitive devaluations across the region would also transmit deflationary pressures to America and Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Can a cheaper yen rid Japan of deflation?

  • The Department of Financial Services said those companies, which account for most of the affected homeowner, auto and business policies, received almost 390, 000 New York claims and have closed more than 68, 000 without paying as of Feb. 15.

    WSJ: NY reports 270K insurer claims paid after Sandy

  • But the EPA estimates that all the sources of methane combined still account for only 9 percent of greenhouse gases, even taking into account methane's more potent heat-trapping.

    NPR: EPA Methane Report Further Divides Fracking Camps

  • And notebooks have been Jobs' preferred tool for this bit of larceny--laptop sales account for roughly 29% of Apple's sales this year, according to analysts, up from just 22% in 2006.

    FORBES: Apple

  • The PC is still too expensive for the smaller businesses (20 employees or fewer) that account for half of India's manufacturing.

    FORBES: Knitters Without Windows

  • Perhaps a more upbeat story is the news that in about two weeks, a scientific paper could provide the first evidence of dark matter -- the mysterious substance said to account for much of the mass of the universe.

    ENGADGET: Alt-week 2.24.13: Mapping the brain, discovering dark matter and our inevitable, grizzly end

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