At the same time, nearly everyone interviewed expressed concern about Mr. Corzine's plans to dedicate roughly half the bond proceeds to expenses other than transportation.
The channel will dedicate roughly seventy per cent of its coverage to news from around the world and thirty per cent to news from Israel, i24 News's founders say.
By comparison, the federal government in the United States dedicates roughly half its spending to assisting the aging — through Social Security, Medicare and the nursing home portion of Medicaid — and directs another quarter of spending to the military.
Since the early 1990s, Congress and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have agreed to dedicate roughly 10% of the NIH budget to fighting HIV/AIDS.
Its apparent key to success: personalization, from writing customers hand-written thank you and holiday cards to dedicating roughly one-sixth of its employees to customer service so pet owners' questions could be answered quickly.
HIV/AIDS funding may be affected the most, because, "[s]ince the early 1990s, Congress and [NIH] have agreed to dedicate roughly 10% of the NIH budget to fighting HIV/AIDS," which some feel is now out of proportion with the burden the disease imposes in the United States.
Verizon said in its response to Markey that it has a dedicated team of roughly 70 employees, and staffs the legal team 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A study in the journal Demography found that families' dedicated spending on children roughly doubled between the 1970s and the middle of last decade — to $2,217, on average, in 2005 and 2006, driven mainly by spending on education.
Of the division's current total of 230 agents, Mr. Gonzalez said, roughly 60 are dedicated to drug work, while about 16 handle international and domestic terrorism, a task that includes monitoring domestic militias; one former agent says the number of agents dedicated to guarding against international terrorism is about eight.
