The law could dramatically increase costs for companies that have placed in reserve less than 60 percent of what they have promised to pay.

Since January, oil-producing states have been placing 20 percent of their oil revenue into a national defense fund.

I do not feel that it is fair to place 10 percent of the homeless population in a village of only 3,200 people.

Last year, Bowdoin placed 823 applicants, or 17 percent of the total pool, on its list.

We have been able to place 100 percent of our grad students in teaching jobs, where the national average is about 60 percent.

In 1987 we placed 28 percent of our graduates in investment banking jobs.

The program cost $54 per welfare recipient and placed only 4 percent of them in permanent paying jobs, she said.

Previously localities had been required to place 40 percent of recipients in such programs.

So stops should be placed at least 10 percent below the current price.

It also placed 12 percent of its assets in Italy, which rallied.