one-seventh

• “Together, the Czechs, Hungarians, and Poles spent only about one-seventh of what Russia spent on defense.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Return

• “An epidemiological study could say that one-seventh of a drink a day causes breast cancer.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Raising the Chance of Some Cancers With Two Drinks a Day

• “Thus, even at a time when private housing finance has not yet revived—and most of the investment in housing is flowing through Fannie and Freddie or the Federal Housing Administration FHA—less than one-seventh of the funds invested in debt securities by institutional investors were invested in government-backed mortgage securities.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Government Mortgage Guarantees Are Unnecessary

• “But House Republicans have yet to embrace Ryan's ideas, instead focusing exclusively on paring back non-security appropriations, which account for only about one-seventh of total federal spending.”

  The Washington Post: Reducing the deficit and growing the economy will be the hot topics in 2011

• “That dwarfed the 1984 demise of Continental Illinois, which had only one-seventh of WaMu's assets.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Banks Keep Failing, No End in Sight

• “Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke and these liberal morons want us to believe that a government that can't even run a cash for clunkers program is going to run one-seventh of our U.S. economy.”

  Liberal group attacks GOP and insurance industry

• “A conservative estimate is that at least one-seventh of Russian couples are infertile.”

  Eastern Europe

• “With the Mets' payroll expected to fall to somewhere between $100 million and $120 million next season, Bay could occupy about one-seventh of the budget.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Oliver Perez With a Bat?

• “Last year, 46 unionists were murdered in a country less than one-seventh the size of the United States -- a rate that would translate to more than 320 murdered union members and leaders in a country of our size.”

  The Huffington Post: Ross Eisenbrey: Colombia's Anti-Union Violence Rules out Free Trade Agreement

• “The pension payment is one-seventh of the roughly $3.5 billion actuaries say is necessary to keep the retirement fund healthy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Budget Pushes Christie's Goals

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