Word: cutbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent 498-page study of New York's finest called for a complete overhaul of the organizational machinery; then it described just how the new one should be set up, from the elimination of the slot for the department's No. 2 man right down to a cutback of the city's much admired but outmoded mounted patrolmen. In another study, Boston's force was told to raise salaries, lower the compulsory retirement age and get civilians to do clerical work. Baltimore's cops were brusquely told that they did have an organized crime problem...
After two or three meetings with Kiesinger, Schroder continued to insist that the cutback would mean a drop in army strength. His goading finally led Kiesinger to announce that he would make no decision on any changes in German armed strength before consulting President Johnson, whom he will visit in Washington beginning Aug. 15. Schroder so far has not been asked to go along. In fact, the two are not at all compatible. The austere North German Defense Minister and the relaxed Swabian could hardly be more unlike in taste, temperament and several areas of policy. Schroder, the only unremitting...
...Washington thus got a taste of its own medicine. Kiesinger complained bitterly that he had had to learn of Washington's proposed cutback of U.S. troops in West Germany by reading the newspapers...
...percentage of non-Harvard students at the Summer School this year has remained as high as last year despite a large cutback in the number of students accepted from other schools...
...spite of a cutback--from 4800 to 3500--in the number of non-Harvard Radcliffe students accepted this year, Thomas E. Crooks, director of the Summer School, expects that the percentage of students from other schools will actually increase...