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military spending 8.8% Percentage of Saudi Arabia's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005. Saudi Arabia has expensive taste in military hardware, such as Patriot missiles, from the U.S. 4% Percentage of America's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005, a lower proportion but higher dollar amount: the...
Pope John Paul II was the first pontiff ever to visit Brazil, and he was hugely popular here. But each time he visited his adoring flock, he came in the knowledge that his Church was losing followers and influence at a frightening rate. Between 1980 and 2000, the proportion of...
In foreign policy he is equally assertive. He revealed, for example, that he intends to propose Kazakhstan for the presidency of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Gone are the days when Russia was content to be in the audience rather than onstage. And by playing along...
“I have arranged a tutorial for myself,” said Faust, who is dean of Radcliffe, to the audience, which was filled with a large proportion of women.
Nonagenarians like Okamura are hardly unusual in today's graying Japan, where 20.2% of the population is older than 65 - the world's highest proportion of that demographic. But few of Okamura's peers are as healthy as he is, and as the proportion of elderly in Japan increases - it...