One was the reduction of the term of compulsory military service from three to two years.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
With a hundred dogs, a delay of a day would be an expensive loss, for if fed upon the carefully guarded food of the advance stores, a rapid reduction in supplies would follow, which could not be replaced, even if abundant game were secured later.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The combinations fear to raise the price to the public so high as to provoke competition, and in most cases in America have not raised it at all, drawing their advantage rather from the reduction in expense of management, and the saving of capital; and the State would not be likely to manage industries producing for the markets any better than, or even so well as, the more keenly interested board of private directors.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae