| 1 | Of course it was an abuse of power, but a pathetically small one compared with Iran-Contra. | |
| 2 | The speed and scale of the slump leaves behind anything that happened after 1990, when Japan' s bubble burst. | |
| 3 | Public debt was high in Germany at 73 percent of GDP, but dwarfed by that of Athens, which is heading toward 150 percent. | |
| 4 | These huge military expenditure will undoubtly increase the deficit and national debt which is much smaller than the gap of the benefits to the old. | |
| 5 | One count of the indictment involved their conduct at Auschwitz, but that was of minor significance compared with the other charges. |