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From: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Point of Information
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 22:30:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 22:30:07 1985
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In article  lkk@teddy.UUCP writes:
>Point of Information:
>
>1980 Defense Budget: $136 Billion
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>1985 Defense Budget: $260 BIllion
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>
>The Defense Department is the largest purchaser of goods and
>services in the United States.
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>-- 
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>Sport Death,
>Larry Kolodney
>(USENET) ...decvax!genrad!teddy!lkk
>(INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc

Thank you for this interesting consult.  Unfortunately, such numbers are
useless without attribution.  It seems, for example, that various
mortality statistics derived from the American Tobacco Institute
occasionally disagree with those given by the American Cancer Society.
Raw statistics, while adding a certain flair to a conversation, 
are not preferred to those properly broiled.  At least to a 
connoissieur, the preparation is as much an art as the display.

Bill Oliver
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
State of North Carolina


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