After one year, 90 percent of the wait-and-see group rated themselves as either much improved or completely recovered.

One percent rated global environmental quality as excellent, and 19 percent called it good.

In fact, just 35 percent of the Southern Republicans rated the issue that high.

Fifty-one percent rated the city a good or excellent place to visit.

By 2005, 61.3 percent of buyers rated fuel economy as important.

About 80 percent rated the care they had received in the United States as good or excellent.

And 48 percent rated their Congressional candidates as fair or poor.

Over all, 87.6 percent of the adults surveyed rated their health as good to excellent.

In post-combat surveys, 94 percent of soldiers rated the M4 as an effective weapons system.

But throughout the study, 75 percent of patients rated severe mental decline as unacceptable.