At some companies, 15 percent of employees now account for 90 percent of the health costs.

Five percent of the employees account for 50 percent of the company's medical costs.

Only .01 percent of genes account for a person's appearance.

American institutions represented 43.9 percent of that figure and foreign ones accounted for 29.4 percent.

That is only slightly less than the 40 percent of the market accounted for by new machines.

"That is, 20 percent of our people will account for 80 percent of the business."

Today, less than 2 percent of farms account for half of all agricultural sales.

In early times, black pepper was the most valued spice, and at one point, accounted for 25 percent of the world's trade.

Five percent of the employees account for half the health-care dollars spent.

Even at the low end, that would mean smuggling costs account for almost 10 percent of Iraq's gross domestic product, $29.3 billion in 2005.