"What do you call fifty percent?"

You'd call 80 percent of the girls and 20 percent of the guys.

The Kyoto Protocol calls for industrialized nations to reduce their combined greenhouse-gas releases by 2012 to a level at least 5 percent below emissions in 1990.

The conventional wisdom among business forecasters now calls for growth of a bit more than 3 percent over the next year.

At Duke, I called 60 percent of the plays.

Still, 82 percent called Long Island a good or excellent place to live, but only 48 percent said it was on the right track.

"You would have to call eighty percent of all Interplan ship circuitry toys," Seth Morley said.

In high school they used to call us forty percent of a basketball team.

Texaco's charter, he said, calls for approval of the new pill by one more than 50 percent of Texaco's 244 million shares.

The contract also calls for paying temporary employees who replace vacationing workers 60 percent of a regular worker's salary.