Today, devoting 30 percent of family income to housing is considered standard, although many young families pay more.

"Our children are grown up, so we can devote 110 percent to the project."

"It was just better business to devote 100 percent of staff effort to the new system," she said.

Her bill would require companies with more than 1,000 employees to devote 8 percent of their payroll to health insurance.

You both will probably devote 35 to 40 percent of your wedding budget to the reception.

In 1973, for example, we devoted 26.5 percent of the gross national product to investment by Americans and to education.

You cannot expect business people to devote 100 percent of their profits to good works.

Now our city government is stepping in to say they can only devote 40 percent of their sales space to those products.

By comparison, no other country devotes more than 10 percent of its economy to health.

Our economy can clearly afford to devote 5.6 percent of the gross national product to defense.