He took us up a hill overlooking the campus, and proudly described how the students had saved one third of the campus space from the wall which runs through the city of Abu Dis, one side of which is in the West Bank, and the other in the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipal district.
The only way to save one-third of school costs would be to increase class size significantly, reduce the number of teachers and increase the span of supervision.
Instead, adopt a soothing rule of thirds: Try to save one-third of the costs ahead of time, during the 18 years that will elapse between the day they wheel you from the delivery room to the one when you help your daughter move into a dorm room with her (you can hope) untattooed roommate.
Saving one-third or 30 percent of whatever money you get is one of the best saving strategies out there.
The two different hypotheticals, of course, examine identical dilemmas: saving one-third of the population is the same as losing two-thirds.
"Mayor Lee and Warren Hellman have produced a plan that saves one-sixth of what they said two months ago was necessary," Mr. Moritz wrote in an e-mail.
As I reported in my recent book Pound Foolish, T Rowe Price claimed in 1994 we were only saving one-third as much as we need for retirement.
The office's modelling anticipates an astonishing range of gains by 2050: nearly halving mains demand, cutting one-third from wastewater volumes, reducing stormwater runoff by 40%, and saving one-third of the electricity used in the system.
Saving one-third of your income might seem like a lot, but it's the only way to build up your savings to something.
