For work on the interstate system, states put up 10 percent and Washington 90 percent.

To do this they had to put up only 5 to 10 percent of the value of the stocks.

Stock market officials, however, mandate that in order to maintain the position, investors need only put up 25 percent of the holding's value.

Flag, the financing arm, is putting up 65 percent of the investment.

But you only have to put up 10 to 20 percent of that in cash.

Today, lenders demand that developers put up 20 percent of the costs.

After all, he was putting up 40 percent of the $499,000 price.

"We are unable to put up 100 percent of the money, which is what the agreement would have required," she said.

Few investors put up 100 percent of the recommended account size to trade commodities.

He puts up less than 10 percent of the value in either case, getting the big leverage that comes from low margins.