Word: lown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...global peace is breaking out and we are now `comrades' of the Russians, then why are we modernizing our weapons and making them more destructive?" Lown asked his audience of mostly SAMSE participants and Harvard students...
Criticizing a poll in which only one percent of respondents thought that nuclear war was likely, Lown also emphasized the importance of working to prevent a nuclear...
...Lown said that the total defense spending predicted for the four years of the Bush administration is over one trillion dollars. He added that out of every income-tax dollar that the government receives, 55 cents are devoted to military spending, as opposed to only two cents each to education and housing...
...solution to any of our other problems can be reached until some of the money going to the military is diverted," Lown said...
Citing education as the most important area to which money must be devoted, Lown emphasized that education, especially for women and mothers, is crucial to eliminating health problems in underdeveloped countries...