"defense" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But the plan calls for maintaining defense outlays at the $290 billion level for three years.
- Mr. Bush's peace dividend - or savings on previously planned defense outlays - would total about $66 billion by 1997.
- A close look at the quarter of all defense outlays that has gone into nuclear weapons suggests that a good portion was wasted.
- By the end of the decade, defense outlays are projected to decline in real terms by more than one-third from the highs of the 1980's.
- Tokyo's defense outlays have now risen to some $30 billion a year, ranking it among the world's top five spenders.
- China's defense outlays increased an average of about 15 percent a year from 1990 to 2005, according to the Chinese military.
- As defense outlays fall, the structure of defense spending will change.
- For example, Japan counts road tolls not paid by members of the American military as part of their defense outlays.
- Mr. Carlucci has proposed that after a small dip in 1989, real defense outlays should grow by about 2 percent a year for the next four or five years.
- And for every one-dollar reduction in defense outlays, they added two dollars to domestic spending.
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