Mr. Lew's focus, they said, will be on increasing the share of financing that goes to the diplomatic corps.
Increasing the share of renewables in electricity and heat is likely to be expensive for some time to come.
Merrill also suggested increasing the share of similar-maturity European paper to 19percentt from 18percentt.
Economic growth, improvements in public health and advances in medical technology, in concert with fertility decline, are increasing the share of elderly in the population.
A long line of presidents have celebrated the success of the two companies in increasing the share of American families that own their homes.
That means increasing the share of the economy – manufacturing and parts of the service sector – where it is possible to increase output per hour worked.
When those gains are in the bag, increasing the share of GDP spent on education could be the icing on the cake.
This will be accomplished in part by increasing the share of Navy ships in the Pacific Ocean while lowering them in the Atlantic, he said.
Composting is partly credited with the success of such cities as San Francisco, Portland and Seattle in increasing the share of the waste stream that is recycled each year.
Mr. Rosenthal, former political director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said specific goals would be developed for each state, like increasing the share of the African-American vote in Ohio by two percentage points over the 9percentt share in 2000.
The new Congress overhauled telecommunications laws for the first time in decades, allowing media companies like Mr. Murdoch's to expand by increasing the share of the national audience they could reach.
