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“Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.”

Important Real Country School Support Research Percent Stress Threat Defense Enormous Budgets Department Engineering Funding

Author:Charles M. Vest

“Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.”

Years Stills Energy Hours Millions Technology Produce Research Percent Iraq Nine Alternatives Hopeful Electricity Solar Power

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.”

Mean Long Running Courses Term Development Research Percent Investing Profit Consistently Short Term Haul Research And Development Sony Long Haul

Author:Akio Morita

“About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'”

Company Focus Groups Research Percent Tests Phones Market Research Focus Groups

Author:Todd McFarlane

“I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.”

Kids Research Percent My Family Focused

Author:Joseph DeRisi

“Research by the Keller Fay Group finds that only 7 percent of word-of-mouth happens online.”

Happens Groups Research Mouths Percent Online Word Of Mouth

Author:Jonah

“Based on research into the Picture Superiority Effect, when we read text alone, we are likely to remember only 10 percent of the information 3 days later. If that information is presented to us as text combined with a relevant image, we are likely to remember 65 percent of the information 3 days later.”

Ifs Remember Effects Information Research Percent Relevant Superiority

Author:John Medina

“There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.”

Turns Deals Roles Trouble Husband Research Percent Bills Active Handle Finance Good Times Sour Creditors

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.”

People Believe Made White Research Percent Noise Cognitive Cognitive Science Pascal White Noise

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“According to "Huffington Post", one Democratic opposition research firm said they spent the past eight months compiling material on [Donald] Trump as he`s risen on the ranks. And that research estimated that if the all material compiled, court and property records,newspaper clips and video, approximately 80 percent of it has yet to surface in this election cycle.”

Ifs Said Past Records Materials Months Trump Research Percent Election Court Property Democratic Eight Surface Newspapers Video Posts Firm Opposition Cycles Risen Clip

Author:Chris Hayes

“I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research.”

Film Roles Seeing Research Percent Female Bigger Data Filmmaker Groundbreaking Popular Film

Author:Emma Watson

“There was a research I think team, which conducted a survey about what Indians think of Americans, and 71 percent I believe said, well, I think all the nice things about our working together with the United States. But there are people I think that are old mind-sets, who still I think remain mired in the Cold War ideology.”

“When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the writing. So I don't have to face a blank piece of paper. I can look at this as a quote that I have from somewhere.”

Writing Looks I Can Done Faces Pieces Ten Paper Research Percent My Time Blank

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.”

Enjoy Levels Economic Higher Benefits Research Percent Workers Careful Instance Excess Compensation Coverage Private Sector Pension Premium Public Sector Health Coverage

Author:Bob Beauprez

“According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.”

Years Three Next Decision Months Research Percent Alcohol Teenage Unlimited Three Months

Author:Xavier Becerra

“We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.”

Needs Pay Education Cutting Research Percent Medical Weather Saving Budgets Senior Funding Savings Just Do It Medicare Inspectors Medical Research Education Funding

Author:Barack Obama

“You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.”

People Knows Shows Research Percent Cells Stem Polls Stem Cell Stem Cell Research

Author:Nancy Reagan

“According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.”

Thinking Persons Age Religious Levels Products Circumstances Research Percent Determination Accounts Currents Gender Income Occupation Genetics Ethnicity Affiliation

Book:The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Source: The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun