One is a kickback scandal of multibillion-dollar proportions swirling around the U.N.-run oil-for-food program that kept ordinary Iraqis from starving during the long years of punishing economic sanctions.
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Between the third quarter of 2009 and the same period last year, the euro's share of central-bank reserves fell from 27.9% to 25.7% and the dollar's proportion nudged up slightly from 61.5% to 61.7%.
The global decrease of foreign exchange reserves by central banks since the second half of 2014, is to some extent explained by exchange rate changes, namely the euro and yen depreciation vis-à-vis the dollar, given the proportion of reserve assets denominated in the former currencies (Figure 1).
The dollar signs show the proportion of the benefits of the mortgage interest deduction going to taxpayers in that income group.
Wal-Mart rang up about 20percentt of total toy sales in the United States by dollar this year, the same proportion held by Toys RR" Us a decade ago, said Tom Goetzinger, a senior analyst for Morningstar.
Just eight Arab countries have actually grown rich from energy exports, though some of them spectacularly so: in the tiny emirate of Qatar some 14% of households are dollar millionaires, a higher proportion than in any other country.
Outcomes were quantified using risks, proportions, odds, dollars, years and days.
Nobody but the President seemed to know how much it cost, but estimates by outsiders run into hundreds of millions of dollars, a significant proportion of the country's foreign debt of about $12 billion.
Most of the families (71.1%) belonged to the less privileged economic levels (monthly family income ≤ 1292 US dollars), but the proportion of less and more socially vulnerable families was equal in the sample.
Thus, the growing flood of grant applications surpasses growth in NIH dollars, reduces the proportion of grants that are funded, and renders peer review increasingly arbitrary because a project ranked in the 20th percentile is often no less meritorious than one ranked in the 10th percentile (Berg, 2013).
