In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent ( 26 of 40 ) of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so ; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment ; some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment.

There is a little-known coda to the Milgram Experiment, reported by Philip Zimbardo: none of the participants who refused to administer the final shocks insisted that the experiment itself be terminated, nor left the room to check the health of the victim without requesting permission to leave, as per Milgram's notes and recollections, when Zimbardo asked him about that point.

Due to increasingly widespread knowledge of the experiment, recent replications of Milgram's procedure had to ensure that the participants were not previously aware of it.

Burger's method was identical to Milgram's except when the shocks reached 150 volts, participants decided whether or not they wanted to continue and then the experiment ended ( base condition ).

For example, in Milgram's first set of obedience experiments, 65 % of participants complied with fake authority figures to administer " maximum shocks " to a confederate.

# Judith Kleinfeld argues that Milgram's study suffers from selection and nonresponse bias due to the way participants were recruited and high non-completion rates.

# One of the key features of Milgram's methodology is that participants are asked to choose the person they know who is most likely to know the target individual.

Charles Sheridan and Richard King hypothesized that some of Milgram's subjects may have suspected that the victim was faking, so they repeated the experiment with a real victim: a " cute, fluffy puppy " who was given real, albeit harmless, electric shocks.

" Milgram's testing suggested that it could have been that the millions of accomplices were merely following orders, despite violating their deepest moral beliefs.

* The track " We Do What We're Told ( Milgram's 37 )" on Peter Gabriel's album So is a reference to Milgram's Experiment 18, in which 37 of 40 people were prepared to administer the highest level of shock.

Additionally, since Milgram's study only used men, Burger tried to determine if there were differences between genders in his study and randomly assigned equal numbers of men and women to the experimental conditions.

Milgram's experiment was conceived in an era when a number of independent threads were converging on the idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected.

He was one of the first to realize that Stanley Milgram's famous " six degrees " letter-passing experiment implied not only that there are short paths between individuals in social networks but also that people seem to be good at finding those paths, an apparently simple observation that turns out to have profound implications for the structure of the networks in question.

In 1986, musician Peter Gabriel wrote a song called We do what we're told ( Milgram's 37 ), referring to the number of subjects ( out of 40 ) who obeyed the experimenters all the way in Milgram's authority experiment, Milgram 18.

Milgram's father worked as a baker to provide a modest income for his family until his death in 1953 ( upon which Stanley's mother took over the bakery ).

The 2008 episode " Authority " of Law and Order: SVU has Detective Munch mentioning Milgram's experiment in reference to corporate training at HappiBurger ( a McDonalds-like restaurant ).

Its primary units were 84 flying squadrons, mostly equipped with F-51 Mustang and F-47 Thunderbolt fighters with air defense of the continental United States as their main mission, it's units under the jurisdiction of the Continental Air Command of the regular Air Force.

While criticized early for his sometimes shoddy defense, Hinske made up for his lapses with his bat, hitting 24 home runs, knocking in 84 runs, and scoring 99 runs.

In 2007 Trufant played a big part in the Seahawks defense, intercepting a career high 7 passes and returning one for an 84 yard touchdown.

In 1993, as a junior, Mamula had 84 tackles and 11 sacks as a rush-backer in a 3-4 defense for Boston College.

Articles 84 and 85 states the official political, social and national defense duties that are rested with the president Other than the enumerated powers, Number 30 allows the president to use other powers granted to him either from national law or from other sections of the Constitution.

Seven of those brigades incurred casualties that ranged from 35 to 50 percent, indicating the ferocity of the Union defense.

Honduran defense spending rose throughout the 1980s until it consumed 20 to 30 percent of the national budget.

In the 1970s, when approximately 20 percent of the defense budget was allocated to naval forces, the Navy grew dramatically.

Yemen ’ s defense budget, which in 2006 represented approximately 40 percent of the total government budget, is expected to remain high for the near term, as the military draft takes effect and internal security threats continue to escalate.

In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union devoted a quarter of its gross economic output to the defense sector ( at the time most Western analysts believed that this figure was 15 percent ).

Additionally, the government raised defense allocations by 400 percent.

As for Egyptian anti-aircraft defense, Egyptian anti-aircraft personnel needed to fire salvos of between 6 to 10 SA-2 anti-aircraft missiles to obtain a better than fifty percent chance of acquiring a hit.

By the 1990s, 90 percent of the air defense mission was being handled by the Air National Guard.

This buildup was accelerated by the Reagan administration, which increased the military spending from 5. 3 percent of GNP in 1981 to 6. 5 percent in 1986, the largest peacetime defense buildup in United States history.

Security and defense were to be allotted more than 30 percent of the national revenues.

By the 1990s, 90 percent of the air defense mission was being handled by the Air National Guard.

The programs would cost a significant portion of U. S. GNP, perhaps as much as 20 % or more by one estimate, at a time when the United States was committing only six to seven percent of its GNP to defense.

While NSC-68 did not make any specific recommendations regarding the proposed increase in defense expenditures, the Truman Administration almost tripled defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product between 1950 and 1953 ( from 5 to 14. 2 percent ).

This means that an additional 8 percent of our labor force, and possibly much more, will be required by direct defense needs by the end of the year.

The Germans expect a return visit to Berlin and put up a better defense ; the British lose 22 bombers, a very high 11. 8 percent loss rate.

He urged qualitative improvements in NATO forces, including equipment standardization, and an increase in defense spending by NATO governments of up to five percent of their gross national product.

:... a major fleet action would decide the war in the Pacific ; the U. S. fleet would be 25 percent superior to that of the enemy ; the enemy would hold his main fleet within his defense line ; fleet unites must be husbanded ; preliminary activities of the U. S fleet must be accomplished with a minimum of assets ; Marine Corps forces must be self-sustaining ; long, drawn-out operations must be avoided to afford the greatest protection to the fleet ; sea objectives must include a fleet anchorage.

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff had harsh criticism of the $ 1. 4 billion figure, the Saudi connection, and the flights out of the U. S. According to Isikoff: " Nearly 90 percent of that amount, $ 1. 18 billion, comes from just one source: contracts in the early to mid-1990s that the Saudi Arabian government awarded to a U. S. defense contractor, BDM, for training the country's military and National Guard.

Jury Verdict Research, a database of plaintiff and defense verdicts, says awards in medical liability cases increased 43 percent in 1999, from $ 700, 000 to $ 1, 000, 000.

When broken down by major function, the history of US government spending as a percent of GDP shows a slow and consistent increase in education spending ; it shows the spikes in defense spending during World War I and World War II, and the sustained high level maintained during the Cold War.

Clinton's defense counsel argued that Clinton's grand jury testimony had too many inconsistencies to be a clear case of perjury, that the investigation and impeachment had been tainted by partisan political bias, that the President's approval rating of more than 70 percent indicated that his ability to govern had not been impaired by the scandal, and that the Managers had ultimately presented " an unsubstantiated, circumstantial case that does not meet the constitutional standard to remove the President from office.