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      "id": 102086,
      "date": "2001-04-06",
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      "title": "Military Spending by Foreign Nations: Data from Selected Public Sources",
      "summary": "This report provides data on defense spending of foreign nations from two sources: the U.S.\nState\nDepartment's  World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers  (WMEAT) and the\nLondon-based\nInternational Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS),  The Military Balance .\n  Although the Department of State and IISS endeavor to provide consistent and accurate\ninformation, cross-national comparison of military spending are inherently imperfect. Available sets\nof data are useful but inevitably suffer from shortcomings of one type or another.",
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