Deep cuts in defense spending and fewer exports also contributed to the decline.
If the trigger had been balanced, if it had included not just cuts in defense and cuts in non-defense discretionary spending, but also revenue, the cuts would have been less deep in both non-defense and discretionary spending.
This has allowed China to make substantial progress, nurturing deep economic, political and defense ties.
Similarly, Romney has proposed to reduce all federal spending to about 20 percent of Gross Domestic Product in four years, implying deep cuts in non-defense government programs.
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The consensus is that defense spending cuts will be deep, citing concerns about troop withdrawals and budgetary pressures.
Under NWPA, DOE is required to permanently dispose of spent nuclear fuel (as well as defense HLW) in a deep underground repository, and to take physical control of the waste beginning in 1998.
Defense Department policy acts as a deep closet, even in death.
Over 1, 000 government programs, including the defense budget and Medicare, are in line for deep, automatic cuts that begin to bite in January.
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Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep appreciation for U.S. funding for the Iron Dome rocket and mortar defense system, which he noted has successfully intercepted several rockets aimed at Israeli communities.
Safe to say that the Department of Defense does not have a submersible with arms to shut off the valve of a deep-water oil well.
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"Our ultimate objective is a deep understanding of the human brain and its understanding, " said Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in a conference call with reporters.
Klinsmann chose to start the largely untested Omar Gonzalez in the central defense over longtime captain Carlos Bocanegra, and the U.S. defenders kept letting the Hondurans deep into the field.
The problem that forward thinkers on cyber security like Kendall, Alexander, and former deputy defense secretary Bill Lynn face is that the existing information grid and acquisition system have spawned constituencies with deep roots in the political system.
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