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The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will. Alex Tabarrok

Will Focus Degree College Neither College Degree Percent Only Never Students Obsessive Well Within Nor Years Than Graduate Six Graduated Taxpayers Less Who Served Four Four-Year Starting Program

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent. Alex Tabarrok

Life Benefits Increased Increases Trends Security Life Expectancy Percent More Retirees Longer Since Began Than Expectancy Fewer Substantial Tax Social Workers Meant Payroll Payroll Tax Social Security Larger Program

When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare. Alexandra Robbins

Health Accountability Patient Would Administrators Percent Hospitals Likely Healthcare Scores Survey Improve Department Human Decided Transparency Figured Base Satisfaction Reimbursement Services Medicare

Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.' Alfonso Cuaron

Experience About Percent Only Getting Experiencing Film Gravity

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero. Alfred P. Sloan

Time You Hero Will Percent End Up Right

Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us. Alison Sweeney

You Heart Blame Parents Believe Approximately Kids At Least One Obese About Percent Risk Fact Factor Schools How Least Years Heart Disease Overweight American Disease American Children Children Us Ages

A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast. Alistair Horne

History November Richard Nixon President Presidential Claim Nixon Some Percent Triumph More Cast Kissinger Could Had Part Voted Votes Policies Him Greatest His Won Than American Representing American History Which Little Richard Elections Landslide Million Played Second

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent. Allen West

You Took District Plus Drew Percent Given More Advantage Almost Firmly House Democrats South South Florida Five Senate Represent Six Which Republicans Registration Means Florida

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. Allyson Schwartz

Dangerous Year National Cargo Our States Entering Unacceptable Percent Rate Only Both Economic Five Officials Screened Customs Interests United United States Million Last Last Year

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research. Amar Bose

Great Great Deal Research Earnings Our Hundred Percent Deal Goes Company

'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that. Amy Landecker

Wild Percent Never Like Curb Improvised Done Anything Which

Engaging in good habits 90 percent of the time, while indulging in bad habits 10 percent of time, places you at risk of being like a hamster running in a wheel. Despite all the energy you're exerting, you won't move forward. You'll never be able to outrun your bad habits. Amy Morin

Time Good You Energy Despite Bad Running Able Bad Habits Percent Risk Habits Outrun Never Like Indulging Exerting Wheel Move Move Forward Being While Places Your Engaging Forward Good Habits

I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world. Amy Sherald

Me Heart Waiting Doctor World Aid Months Spent Out Percent Rite Hospital End End Of The World Transplant Function Two

Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life. Ana Ivanovic

Happiness Life You Change Be Happy Balance Happy People Important Think Else Everyone Ways Find Percent Give Something Something Else Pursue Throughout Priorities Very Different Want Wants While Your Hard Different Ways Career

I'm a son of immigrants. I'm not going to reduce my commitment to immigration. But can I empathize with the fact that if your town was 95 percent all white and now it's down to 60, that that can scare you? Can I empathize with that? Yeah. Anand Giridharadas

You Son Commitment Immigration White Down Immigrants Scare Percent Fact Empathize Town Reduce Yeah Going Your Now

I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and I can't live with everything I've had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world. Andie MacDowell

World Rest Seen Poverty Live Unless Everything Top Immense One Percent Percent Something Had Comfortable Lot Realize Traveled

If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done. Andre Dubus III

You Yourself Writing Care Will Advice Think Way Easier Would Would-Be Find About Percent Writer Put Said Than Author Done Just Ever Publishing Career

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women. Andrea Jung

Work Women Management Other Our Percent More Policies Got Than Officers Any Senior Family-Friendly Place Avon Unique Company

Much of Mr. Bush's 28 percent approval rating is born not of 'failed policies' - of which there are many - but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better. Andrew Breitbart

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works. Andrew Lau

Some About Percent Concentrate Make Am Movies Works Chance

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets. Andrew Natsios

Food People Aid Months Markets Eat Cost Percent Costs Had Takes Ship Shipping Die Cannot Four

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