Put another way, residential heating and air conditioning constitute 11.88 percent of the U.S. energy budget: cars only account for 8.9 percent. (see spread sheets 2.2 and 2.6) Worse, a good portion of that energy is wasted: lights get left on, air conditioners churn when you are on vacation, sleeping notebooks suck vampire power.
There is still a relative lack of women in top-tiered leadership positions throughout the U.S., even though they account for 46.9 percent of the workforce and are outpacing men in both college enrollment and graduation rates, according to Catalyst, a New York-based nonprofit for women.
The 27 million privately held companies in the U.S. account for 80 percent of new jobs and up to 70 percent of GDP.
Female veterans currently comprise 8 percent of the total veteran population in the U.S., and account for 6 percent of all veterans who use the VA system.
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Consumers are also expected to be hungry for notebooks with 14-inch displays, as they will account for 34.6 percent of the shipments.
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses account for a full 50 percent of total U.S. employment.
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If made today, these payments would account for 6.25 percent of Irish GDP.
According to the US Census Bureau, SMBs account for 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
This year, cars account for 53.2 percent of all auto sales.
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Members account for 99.8 percent of global rough diamond production.
While hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full electric cars largely remain niche vehicles, representing less than three percent of all vehicles sold nationally, 15 U.S. cities combine to account for nearly 30 percent of all hybrids and 41 percent of all electric vehicles on the road according to R.
Lenovo will account for 15.4 percent, while Dell will ship 12.4 percent of the machines.
The publication expects the HP Pavilion maker to account for 17.8 percent of the first-quarter shipments.
They only account for 7.5 percent of top earners in Fortune 500 companies.
Indeed, Hamilton earlier this week noted during a presentation in New York that sales growth rates at privately held companies, which account for 67.1 percent of all private-sector employment, have slowed significantly in recent months.
He explained that carriers are seeing revenue growth from prepaid services which now account for 22.5 to 29 percent of revenue.
The next size down will only account for 11.1 percent, however, which is interesting considering the popularity of the 13-inch MacBook Air.
This share tops all of North America, which accounts for 8 percent, Europe and Russia, which account for 13 percent, and even the Middle East and Turkey, which together account for 12 percent.
Privately held firms also account for about 54.5 percent of spending on plants and equipment, professors John Asker and Alexander Ljungqvist of NYU and Joan Farre-Mensa of Harvard estimated in a recent study comparing private- and public-company investments.
Still, wealthier households account for a disproportionate share of consumer spending: About 20 percent of Americans account for about 40 percent of spending.
The sales rate in these hybrid-hating markets is 1.5 percent, half the national average, and they account for only 1 percent of EV sales, even though they represent 6.6 percent of all vehicle sales.
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Investors are unusually nervous because of reports that Apple might be curtailing purchases of screens for its iPhone and iPad, which together account for over 70 percent of revenue.
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The U.S. and China each import one-half of their oil requirements, and together account for 35 percent of global petroleum consumption.
Coal is expected to account for 7 percent.
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In Michigan -- I was just talking to Governor Granholm about the fact that last year we accounted for 2 percent of the advanced battery technology in the entire world, and by 2015, we are going to account for 40 percent.
California, not surprisingly, leads the nation in hybrid sales, with nine of the top 15 hybrid-happy markets in the U.S. These markets, along with four cities in Oregon, plus Seattle and Tuscon, account for about 30 percent of all hybrid sales in the nation.
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Earmarks -- pork projects, what everybody calls pork -- those account for about 1 percent of the budget, less than 1 percent.
But now in US, ebooks account for 25 to 30 percent of sales.
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Brazil's richest 10 percent earns nearly half of the national income, while the poorest 20 percent account for less than 3 percent of earnings.
And new medicines ultimately yield a legacy of cost-effective generics, which today account for 80 percent of U.S. prescriptions and are actually less expensive here than in other countries around the world.
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