Word: annually
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Even so, the national origins policy remained an unworkable patchwork of discrimination and special dispensations. Great Britain, with an annual quota of about 65,000 a year, sends no more than 25,000 immigrants to the U.S. Ireland, with a quota of 17,750, sends just 6,500. Italy, allowed to send only 5,666, has a waiting list of 249,583. India's quota is just 100, its backlog...
...refusing to allow the Secretary of Defense to close any base until 120 days after he has announced his plans to House and Senate Armed Services committees. He must submit his shutdown reports between Jan. 1 and April 30 so the committees can write restrictive language into the annual military construction bills if they disapprove...
...sponsor state design institutes and couture houses. Poland's Jadwiga Grabowska, manager and chief designer of Warsaw's EWA style center, is frequently on television in her role as "the dictator of Polish fashion." Like her counterparts in other Red lands, she vies with Moscow to produce annual "socialistically styled" lines of dresses and sportswear, which are sent as exhibitions to foreign capitals, while troops of designers at the same time study the latest inspirations that Paris has to offer. Party newspapers and television urge women (and men) to dress more tastefully, and carry advice on dieting, cosmetics...
...consumer costs and-in an effort to guarantee democracy-replaced Uruguay's one-man presidency with a nine-man National Council. As benefits piled on benefits, the Council became less a government than a gigantic octopus that today is drowning in its own ink. To meet rising annual deficits, the government simply has printed more money, has run the foreign debt to an unwieldy $500 million, of which $80 million is already overdue this year. Largely as a result, the once-proud peso in the past five years fell from 9? to 1½ and the cost of living...
Griswold, speaking at the annual dinner in honor of the judiciary at the American Bar Association Convention in Miami, did not praise any of the Court's decision specifically. Instead he urged his listeners to examine the cases in the light of "the long view of history...