Real estate loans show the biggest losses as a percentage of loans granted at 28.2% – almost a third of the original value – up from 17% six months ago.
The total percentage of requests granted may have declined slightly from 94% in July to December 2010 to 88% two years later but total numbers have risen.
And a time series plot of the percentage of requests granted (shown in this chart) shows an alarmingly steep downward trend.
The Wall Street Journal soon jumped on that part of the story, producing a graph labeled "Decline and Fall," and showing a decline in the percentage of degrees granted in the humanities from the late 1960s to 2010.
The military can grant a "moral waiver" to allow a convicted criminal or otherwise ineligible person into the armed forces, and the percentage of recruits granted such waivers grew from 16.7percentt in 2003 to 19.6percentt in 2006, according to Pentagon data obtained by the Palm Center in a 2007 Freedom of Information Act request.
Ms. Cullen said that since 1977, the percentage of United States patents granted to Japanese companies more than doubled, to 19percentt of the total, while the percentage going to Americans fell, to 56percentt from 66percentt.
The percentage of teachers not granted tenure in the city has been steadily rising.
In addition, he said to check on the minimum amount required to start a fund; the fees and expenses; if there is a minimum amount required for a grant; and if a certain percentage has to be granted each year.
But the Microsoft legal team looked at the high percentage of secrecy orders granted in the year and a half through March of this year, and concluded that prosecutors often relied on a vague standard that there was a "reason to believe" that disclosure might hinder an investigation.
Granted, the percentage of international business travelers who have a need for such a product is small.
