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...Bush was silent about the biggest double tax of all, one that hits every working American, not just the one-fourth of tax-return filers who report stock dividends. It's the income tax layered upon the portion of a worker's paycheck that is withheld to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes...
Currently, one-sixth of the country’s black students are educated in schools that are almost completely non-white, in the northeast and midwest areas the proportion rises to one-fourth of all black students. These schools, which the report calls “apartheid schools,” often suffer from poverty, limited resources and a variety of social and health problems...
...long run, China remains a key global market. "We may not reach the (penetration rate) of Hong Kong," says Peter Lovelock, director of Beijing-based consultancy MFC Insight, "but there is no reason we can't get to 40%." Already, one-fourth of the world's cellular phones are sold here, and there are still plenty of customers like Shanghai high school student Song Yuyun. "Out with the old, in with the new," she said recently as she examined a sleek new phone to replace her older model. "I should be coming into some money over Chinese New Year...
Rather than pluck out selected ballots and counting them entirely, fractional transfer would take all extra ballots but weight them as if each one was just a fraction of a vote. For example, instead of counting every 4th ballot, all of the ballots would be counted with a weight of one-fourth...
...trouble, the White House gets to offer energy producers about 44 percent of the oil deposits and 47 percent of the natural gas deposits that the larger site had, on one-fourth the acreage. Enough natural gas, said Norton, to serve one million American families for 15 years, and enough oil to power the cars of one million families for nearly six years...