Its elimination would require diverting roughly 4 percent of the labor force to producing additional goods for export and to replace those currently imported.

With the Mayor's approval, the city agreed to divert as much as 5 percent of the foster-care budget for family-preservation programs.

Were you to divert 10 percent of your salary to a 401(k) plan, the bottom line becomes $509.

Gone is the day when President Clinton could propose another plan diverting 15 percent of Social Security reserves into the stock market.

They say, 'I'm not cutting benefits, or raising payroll taxes, and I will let young people divert 2 percent.'

In 1992, for example, the City Council projected that recycling would divert 42 percent of the city's trash by the turn of the century.

Connecticut diverts 15 percent, the association says.

By 2013, the city anticipates that it will divert more than 90 percent of the city's household waste from the landfills.

Today, recycling efforts in the United States divert 32 percent of waste away from landfills.

India states the project will divert 10 percent of the river's flow while other estimates stand as high as 33 percent.