Foreign affiliates now account for one-tenth of world GDP and one-third of world exports, the agency's World Investment Report said.
Pension funds managed on behalf of black workers account for about one-fifth of the two insurers' business.
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Perhaps the biggest and currently the scratchiest division is between Arabs and Kurds, who control most of the east and north of Nineveh, and account for about one-third of its population.
Hungary remains hobbled by corruption (a cosy cartel, especially in local government, slices up European Union funds), a heavy burden of debt and a black economy that may account for one-fifth of GDP.
Her union addresses the practical needs of independent workers, who now account for around one-third of the workforce.
Developing countries should account for one third of sales by 2013, Kraft said, vs. about one fourth now.
China and India are expected to account for one third of the world's diabetics in a couple of decades.
DiamondRock yet revised its outlook downward to account for the bankruptcy of one of its hotels and an increase in property taxes in Boston.
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Sadly, the United States, where innovation-intensive industries account for one third of GDP, looks set to keep taking one step backward for every step forward in that drive.
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The goal is to stem the rising tide of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, including those known as repetitive stress or repetitive strain injuries, that account for one third of all occupational injuries reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics each year.
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Many of those products were already in the pipeline, however, particularly a planned 2008 update for its best-selling Ford F-series pickups, which account for about one-quarter of Ford's annual sales.
Although over three-fifths of the world's population live in Asia, they only account for just over one-fifth of global private consumption, much less than America's 30% share.
Christians account for about one percent of Bangladesh's 130 million people, most of whom are Muslim.
In America they are expected to account for one-fifth of all share-trading in three years' time (see chart).
If White House tours cost four million, they would account for about one percent of White House spending.
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Kei cars are so hot these days, they account for about one out of every three cars sold in Japan.
America's stockmarket bubble has been partly financed by foreigners, notably the Japanese, who account for one-third of the world's savings.
Meanwhile, trucks account for almost one quarter of China's vehicles but contribute a disproportionate share, almost 80%, of vehicle particulate matter.
According to Tucci, EMC expects Symmetrix DMX to account for one-half of Symmetrix revenue in the current quarter, which ends in March.
The hijackings account for one-third of all global piracy incidents this year and the situation is getting out of control, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
According to the Census Bureau, minorities currently account for one-third of U.S. residents, and that proportion is expected to be close to half of all U.S. residents by 2050.
The number of people over 60 is calculated to rise by 200, 000 a year until 2015, when they will account for one-third of the total registered population in the city.
It said that Asia and the Middle East would soon account for about one quarter of that market, thanks in large part to growing demand for the products in India and China.
Nonetheless, in a recent study by Harvard's Richard Murnane and co-authors, differences in mother-child interaction patterns like these were found to account for one-third of the black-white gap in math and English skills at the beginning of kindergarten -- and one-quarter at the end of third grade.
Although initially Walgreens aimed to have disabled employees constitute a third of the workers in the distribution centers, they now account for 40% of the workforce in one center, and 50% in the other.
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In a recent paper in Climate Dynamics, Mark Webb of Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Change and his colleagues reported that clouds account for 66% of the differences between members of one important group of models and for 85% of them in another group.
Hispanics now account for nearly one-quarter of children under the age of 18, Cohn said.
In all, cars and trucks account for almost one-third of the total air pollution in the United States.
The kyoei gaisha have their own club, and between them its 260 members account for about one-fifth of Matsushita's parts purchases.
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