• When you do a design and you do it seven or more times to find the right cut and the right proportion, it's not easy to get there, and that's why it's costly.

    WSJ: Alber Elbaz | Soapbox

  • And then there are the true sport buildings, vacation homes which grew in number, proportion and sportiness, right along with primary residences.

    FORBES: The Sport Utility Building Tax

  • The best emerging-market schools are determined to go global (or at least regional) in their own right: CEIBS has increased the proportion of its students who are foreign from 10% in 2002 to 40% in 2009 and is hoping to create an Ivy League for the East.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • In most cases, they will remain in their chosen comfort zone, either in adoration or abhorrence of a candidate, within this French bubble, where web activists are predominantly left-leaning , with a small proportion of them on the extreme right, but significantly fewer still on the right.

    CNN: Why social media will reveal French election winner

  • Three-quarters of the savings would come from spending cuts, and a quarter from increased revenue (a proportion that this newspaper believes is roughly right).

    ECONOMIST: The debt ceiling

  • To mobilize the right resources and processes to ensure that a higher proportion of their investments will become run-away winners, some leading firms are subjecting their past deals to a detailed forensic examination.

    FORBES: Top Private Equity Funds Mine Past Wins For Lessons

  • People are, however, jaded by business's excesses: just 37% of respondents believe that business strikes the right balance between profits and public interest, the lowest proportion since Pew began asking the question in 1987.

    ECONOMIST: Government v market in America

  • "A very large proportion of cases are overturned on appeal and it is not right that people should be returned to their region of origin and then have to make an appeal from there, " Mr Taylor told BBC News.

    BBC: UN offers to step in over Sangatte

  • In the first place, because we are a highly financialised world economy, in which the destabilising role of finance - when it goes wrong - is in proportion to its highly stabilising and dynamic role when it works right.

    BBC: Thinking outside the 1930s box

  • "Quite a significant proportion of off-road bikers feel it is their birth-right to come up here and destroy this ancient land, " added Mr Crowhurst.

    BBC: Off-road bikers make 'countryside into war zone' claim

  • So, although the souped-up alternator adds 1% to CO2 emissions in its own right, its inventors claim it improves overall fuel efficiency by about 6%, cutting CO2 emissions in proportion.

    ECONOMIST: Diesel engines

  • In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions to ministers range across increasing sports in schools, asylum seekers' right to work in the UK after six months of waiting for a decision on their application - and the proportion of deaths recorded as caused by cancer where the actual cause of death was the treatment.

    BBC: Week ahead

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