on a path to long-term, sustainable fiscal health. But he told reporters that achieving another objective, cutting the deficit in half as a percentage of gross domestic product within five years, would require "modifications,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

For each ten percentage point increase in sports participation, she found a one point increase in female college attendance.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

The study found a big increase in the percentage of married women who earn more money than their husbands.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

Some say that is still only a small percentage of all the creatures living in the sea.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

That is a half-percentage point higher than the estimate in April.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

"Now,with large epidemiological studies done everywhere including here, we can say with a great level of confidence that the disease affects roughly the same percentage of the general public worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.11.16

Only a small percentage receive financial aid.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

"We have a high percentage of unemployment. A high number of workers are sitting in their houses,not working.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

"As a result,an alarming percentage of the Pakistani population now sees America as a greater threat than al-Qaida,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

He says bigger industrialized economies, which have a larger percentage of votes on the IMF's executive board, would receive more SDRs than poorer countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

That is something to which he has devoted a huge percentage of his adult life."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

But knowing what percentage this is of the total amount leaking from the well will not be possible until a tight seal is on the well.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

This year,when you have two-thirds being pessimistic about American foreign policy, you have a larger percentage saying maybe it will be better if Iran has nuclear weapons."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06