In the 1970s, the United States Supreme Court ruled against gender bias in alimony awards, and the percentage of alimony recipients who are male rose to 3. 6 % in 2006.

Now that women make up a large percentage of the workforce, existing laws regarding alimony in the United States have come into question.

Although the vast majority of recipients do not respond to these emails, a very small percentage do, enough to make the fraud worthwhile, as many millions of messages can be sent.

One study estimates that this percentage could be as high as 37 % of all MRI recipients.

Among welfare recipients, the percentage that reported earnings from employment increased from 6. 7 percent in 1990 to 28. 1 percent by 1999.

* According to the US Department of Justice, prison time as a percentage of the time sentenced to jail was 73 % in 1993 and increased to 86 % in 1997.

The percentage of the population living below USD PPP US $ 1. 25 / day fell from 48 percent to 44 percent between 1995 and 2003.

The general public have been found to hold a strong stereotype of dangerousness and desire for social distance from individuals described as mentally ill. A US national survey found that a higher percentage of people rate individuals described as displaying the characteristics of a mental disorder as " likely to do something violent to others ", compared to the percentage of people who are rating individuals described as being " troubled ".

At the end of his term, Argentina's country risk premium was a low 6. 10 percentage points above yield on comparable US Treasuries.

In the UK, similar to a sizable percentage of public companies in the US, the chairman of the board in public companies is more senior than the chief executive ( who is usually known as the managing director ).

In the US, there is similar resistance from minority groups to defining themselves by more than one race on census returns, or as multi-racial, as it is feared that this will fragment demographic groups, and lower the percentage of the population recorded as belonging to a particular race, with possible negative affects on government policies aimed at addressing the concerns of disdvantaged minority groups.

Theodore posted a 13 – 15 – 1 record in 2006-07, with an 89. 1 save percentage and 3. 26 goals average and his six million US dollars salary became a heavy burden for the Avalanche in the salary cap era.

This is tied for the second-highest percentage of votes Bush received for any county in the US ( in both 2000 and 2004 ), and it is the highest percentage during the 2004 election, ( only Glasscock County, Texas, at 93. 1 percent, had a higher percentage in the 2000 Presidential election, though in both instances the percentages are skewed by the very small number of voters ).

The county has the distinction of having the highest percentage of Democratic votes for President in the 2004 election of any county in the US ( 85 %) and in 2008 with 88. 69 % of votes cast for Barack Obama.

In the 2000 Census, 5. 7 % of the people in Bennett County identified as mixed-race Native American-European American ( more Lakota socially identify as having mixed-race ancestry ) This is the highest percentage of any county within US boundaries, except northeastern Oklahoma and White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.

Despite its image for Mexican immigration, a large percentage are US citizens, born and raised in Coachella.

As of 2000, Cooper City had the sixty-fifth highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 5. 29 % of the city's population ( tied with West Palm Beach ,) and it had the ninety-second highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, which made up 1. 78 % of all residents ( tied with Pinecrest and South Bound Brook, New Jersey.

As of 2000, before West Park annexed it, the Miami Gardens section had the 103rd highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, with 1. 63 % of the US populace.

The forty-fourth highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 9. 76 % of the city's population ( tied with Key Largo ,) the twenty-fourth highest percentage of Dominicans in the US, with 4. 62 %, and the fifteenth highest percentage of Jamaican residents in the US, at 6. 3 % of the city's population.

The percentage of Jewish girls who attend college is almost as high as that of boys.

The real percentage of foreign residents is higher, since the Alicante metropolitan area is home to many Northern European retirees who are officially still residents of their own countries.

The player who experienced this phenomenon with the most number of at-bats in a season was Ernie Bowman, who over 125 at-bats in 1963 had a batting average of. 184 and an on-base percentage of. 181.

For example in the case of anthrax, it is likely that by 24 – 36 hours after an attack, some small percentage of individuals ( those with compromised immune system or who had received a large dose of the organism due to proximity to the release point ) will become ill with classical symptoms and signs ( including a virtually unique chest X-ray finding, often recognized by public health officials if they receive timely reports ).

It serves as preparation for graduate school and helps to explain why Caltech has the highest percentage of alumni who go on to receive a PhD of all the major universities.

* Contraceptive prevalence rate, percentage of women between 15 – 49 years who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, any form of contraception

South Asia has the world's largest English-speaking population with a certain percentage of people who speak English as their first or second language, although most speakers of Indian English, Pakistani English etc.

Grady Sizemore, who had a. 995 fielding percentage and only two errors in 405 chances, won the Gold Glove award, Cleveland's first since 2001.

Both players had a better fielding percentage, more total chances, better zone rating, more putouts, more double plays turned, better range factor and more assists than their counterparts who won the award instead ( Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee and Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins ).

A study published on the British Medical Journal concluded that " identification as belonging to the Goth subculture some point in their lives was the best predictor of self harm and attempted suicide young teens ", and that it was most possibly due to a selection mechanism ( persons that wanted to harm themselves later identified as goths, thus raising the percentage of those persons who identify as goths ).

The percentage of the children born in London who died before the age of five decreased from 74. 5 % in 1730 – 1749 to 31. 8 % in 1810 – 1829.

The term " Orthodox " is not popular in Israeli discourse, although the percentage of Jews who come under that category is far greater than in the diaspora.

Apart from those who ranked 0 ( 71 %), the largest percentage in between 0 and 6 was 1 at approximately 15 %.

They find that those who are assigned to the Washington Post treatment group are eight percentage points more likely to vote for the Democrat in the elections.

The percentage who felt “ news organizations get the facts straight ” fell from 55 percent to 37 percent.

He found that the percentage of participants who are prepared to inflict fatal voltages remains remarkably constant, 61 – 66 percent, regardless of time or place.

Instead of being hired by the foodservice establishments like in the previous three categories, performers at foodservice establishments of this category were usually contractors who paid the foodservice establishment to perform on stages and split the earning according to a certain percentage.

Hunter and those who picked up the Chinese term used it to explain why, unlike in earlier wars, a relatively high percentage of American GIs defected to the enemy side after becoming prisoners-of-war.

Illicit diversion has been a problem, but to the many proponents of the utilization of morphine for OST, the benefits far outweigh the costs, taking into account the much higher percentage of addicts who are " held " or, from another perspective, satisfied by this treatment option, as opposed to methadone and buprenorphine treated addicts, who are more likely to forgo their treatment and revert to using heroin etc., in many cases by selling their methadone or buprenorphine prescriptions to afford their opiate of choice.

Led by MVP Simms who completed 22 of 25 passes for a Super Bowl record 88 % completion percentage, they defeated the Broncos 39 – 20, to win their first championship since 1956.

Labour was still more than ten percentage points behind the Conservatives, who retained a three-figure majority in the House of Commons.

and General Motors and Du Pont were to be ordered to terminate any agreement that provided for the purchase by General Motors of any specified percentage of its requirements of any Du Pont manufactured product, or for the grant of exclusive patent rights, or for a grant by General Motors to Du Pont of a preferential right to make or sell any chemical discovery of General Motors, or for the maintenance of any joint commercial enterprise by the two companies.

To figure the value of the farm in terms of investment income, divide the estimated annual net farm income by the percentage that you could expect to get in interest if the money were invested in some other way.

Some of these apprentices were, in physical strength, already men and doubtless a percentage of them were Spencer's followers.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

However, a percentage of the indigenous Assyrian population ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) resisted this process, Assyrian Aramaic language and Church of the East Christianity were still dominant in the north, as late as the 11th and 12th centuries AD.

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors.

The Gallup Organization reported that " In 2003, 42 % of U. S. adults said they were born-again or evangelical ; the 2004 percentage is 41 %.

Most of the army was composed of riflemen, a significant percentage of which were in Menelik's reserve ; however, the army was also composed of a significant number of cavalry and infantry only armed with lances.

Eighty-five percent of the specimens were organic, soft-shelled allogromiids, which is unusual compared to samples of sediment-dwelling organisms from other deep-sea environments, where the percentage of organic-walled foraminifera ranges from 5 % to 20 %.

In the seas, the percentage of animals that were sessile dropped from 67 % to 50 %.

With the Tigers having already lost a match to Fitzroy by a substantial margin the Dons were declared premiers by virtue of their superior percentage.

Monks and nuns were encouraged to return to private life and a small percentage did eventually marry.

While the majority were born in the Gaza Strip, a large percentage identify as Palestinian refugees, fleeing to Gaza as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus following the Arab-Israeli War.

Recommendations were based on performance in qualifying tournaments, with the required score depending on the percentage of Grandmasters and International Masters in the tournament.

In County Cork between 1920 and 1923 the IRA shot over 200 civilians of whom over 70 ( or 36 %) were Protestants: five times the percentage of Protestants in the civilian population.

These troops were composed of Lebanese and Syrian enlisted personnel, but were commanded predominantly by French officers ; however, the percentage of Lebanese and Syrian officers in the force gradually increased in size to approximately 90 % of the total number by 1945.

Until then, only a small percentage of the population were literate as only wealthy individuals and institutions could afford the materials.

Throughout the post-World War II era, Paraguay had no personal income tax, and government revenues as a percentage of GDP were among the lowest in the world.

In South Korea, people of foreign origin, including Chinese, Japanese, Westerners, Southeast Asians, South Asians and others were a small percentage of the population whose residence was generally temporary.

Skills were rated from 1 – 6 and usually consisted of a set of subskills that gave a chance for accomplishing a particular action as a base percentage plus a 10 % bonus for each skill level the character had in the skill.

Anderson's 25 completions and his 73. 5 completion percentage were both Super Bowl records.