11.   Remember to pinch the top growth back only about half an inch to spruce up leggy pansies.

12.   The Telefonos de Mexico shares that trade on the New York Stock Exchange are now worth about half what some investors paid for them in February.

13.   Then, slowly, ownership increased, and today about half of all Americans own stock either directly or through mutual funds.

14.   Now about half that remains.

15.   Reports of the incident caused mooncake sales to plunge countrywide by about half last fall.

16.   In France and Belgium, women earn about three-quarters of the average male wage, and in Japan only about half.