Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!unc!oliver From: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Point of Information Message-ID: <578@unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 22:30:07 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.578 Posted: Thu Jul 11 22:30:07 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 16:53:53 EDT References:Reply-To: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 33 In article lkk@teddy.UUCP writes: >Point of Information: > >1980 Defense Budget: $136 Billion > >1985 Defense Budget: $260 BIllion > > >The Defense Department is the largest purchaser of goods and >services in the United States. > > >-- > >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 Usual disclaimer.