Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University Police Chief Robert Tonis urges all Summer School students to protect themselves against theft and fines. The number of bicycle thefts has increased recently, and the University police recommend metal link chains--rather than those flimsy plastic-coated cables--to foil would-be bicycle-nappers...
...therefore recommend choice by lottery...
Most of the inequity in the present pay scale for draftees could be elimi- nated, and reasonable pay differentials maintaned among servicemen, with pay increases that would total between $2 billion and $3 billion per year. We recommend such increases on grounds of fairness and in the belief that a democracy with a GNF of over half a trillion dollars, and with income-tax rates lower than those prevailing before Vietnam, has no compelling need to use conscription to keep military wages down...
Official estimates of the likely cost of achieving a volunteer force of about 2.7 million men in peacetime appear to us somewhat exaggerated; pay increases on the scale we recommend should have an appreciable effect on enlistments. If so, the net cost will be reduced through reductions in training and other expenses associated with the higher turnover of drafted...
Increased pay, along the lines we recommend, should increase the number of men who enlist under the present physical and mental standards. There is a natural tendency, and a commendable one, for the armed services to want the highest quality personnel they can get; and with higher pay they would be able, and might be tempted, to raise standards of acceptance rather than to admit a larger number of enlistees...