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From: mdhutton@violet.waterloo.edu (Mike Hutton)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Community College Teachers on strike
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Date: 17 Nov 89 16:45:14 GMT
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In article <12313@watcgl.waterloo.edu> mark@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Mark Earnshaw) writes:
>In article <7470@cognos.UUCP> rayt@cognos.UUCP (R.) writes:
>>United States ...................... 4900 per pupil
>>Canada ............................. 4700 per pupil
>
>In particular, I thought that the US was much further ahead of us in
>spending than shown.  Of course, a lot of this money goes on research
>(e.g. SDI) so maybe this hasn't been factored in?

If we were going to count US defence research, perhaps we need a
few more 0's in their column.  :^)  

But for many, including myself, that :^) should really be a :^(.

Mike
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Michael Hutton
University of Waterloo, Computer Science.      mdhutton@violet.waterloo.edu