Comparing Schor's data with E.P.A. data on municipal solid waste shows that the rate at which we threw out old furniture rose about one-thirteenth as fast during roughly the same period.
Parcels' share was about one-sixth.
Trade taxes account for about one-fifth; corporate income tax, about one-eighth.
Manufacturing contributed about one-fifth to GDP and employed about one-fourth of the labour force.
A century later this proportion had decreased to about one-tenth.
"Alfred Kazin's Journals" represents about one-sixth of that total.
Rescued nascent General Motors 1920s, took about one-third.
Membrane proteins constitute about one third of the proteome.
About one-third of these work on developing new products.
A tofu dog, on the other hand, accounts for about one-thirteenth the emissions - as well as less land and water, and fewer wildlife conflicts - of a beef hot dog.
Jim Nielsen, the company's manager of enterprise technology, calculated that using Google instead of similar Microsoft products would cost, over seven years, about one-thirteenth Microsoft's price.
