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The excise tax rate is 10 percent of the cost of a prohibited communication . The charges include political favoritism and limited opportunities for small and minority-owned firms , which initially got only 1.5 percent of the total work . Fuelwood and charcoal accounted for 52 percent of the total harvest , while the other 48 percent was made into lumber , panels for construction , or pulp for paper . Ironically , the state 's debt service ratio never exceeded 2.2 percent throughout the 1960s , when California was at its zenith in public works construction . There was a study done in 1993 , and repeated in 1994 , that showed - - and I have this in the testimony , the references - - that if you cut staffing by 8 percent in a hospital , you are 400 percent more likely to see more morbidity and mortality in patients in that facility . The simple average of the rates , however , declined to 2-3 percent after the start of the 1990s , and in the second half of the decade remained at 2-3 percent in the United States , United Kingdom , and Italy , and fell below 2 percent in the other G-7 countries . With tariffs up to 90 percent on some of the goods we import and an additional 60-80 percent in freight costs due to Laos being a landlocked country , we are limited in what we are able to purchase from Laos . - The Secretary may withhold up to 10 percent of the funds apportioned under this title and under chapter 53 of title 49 for any fiscal year beginning after September 30 , 1995 , to any State and any recipient of assistance under such Act in the State unless , in the preceding fiscal year , the State was implementing each of the management systems described in subsection ( a ) and , before January 1 of the preceding fiscal year , the State certified , in writing , to the Secretary , that the State was implementing each of such management systems in the preceding fiscal year . In the first quarter , Intel shipped 81.7 percent of the processors measured by the study , and AMD shipped 16.6 percent .