Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday morning he sensed that the moment was ripe for a compromise. "Last night did some good," he said. "Psychologically, it made us all realize we had to find a solution." The one he found was a proposal by Henry ("Scoop") Jackson to raise the price ceiling to $2.03-higher than the Carter plan but lower than what decontrol advocates figured the free-market price would be ($2.75 to $3.25). Byrd won the approval of Abourezk and Metzenbaum for the Jackson compromise. But the Senators who favor decontrol refused to go along. To block the compromise -and prevent a move...
Quality As the Army has been insisting all along, it is signing up higher-caliber men than those who were dragged into uniform by the draft. Since conscription ended, the portion of enlistees in the top three of four mental categories used for classifying eligible people has increased from 76% to 93%. The Army's strategy is to continue raising standards so that the lowest mental category can eventually be eliminated. Since the end of the draft, the Army has already reduced the proportion of the bottom-category enlistees to 11% from...
...volunteer force has added less than $300 million to the budget cost of defense manpower-about two-tenths of 1% of the defense budget." While spending for defense personnel did rise from about $22 billion in 1964 to more than $50 billion in 1976, in part because of the higher pay scale, the primary cause was the higher cost of civilian defense employees and a military retirement system enacted at the end of World...
...shifts according to seniority, rather than a "scientifically determined" need. Then Gorski called a symbolic halt to the "nice-guy era," announcing in November 1975 that Harvard police would no longer simply warn non-student trespassers, but arrest them. Violent crime dropped over 50 per cent; tempers soared considerably higher...
...addition, the poll reported that faculty members polled see higher education falling in the public opinion. Three-fourths of the pollees said that universities no longer hold the public favor as they did in the 1960s