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...allowing schools to use race as a factor in admissions--remains the law of the land. Most schools see real value in maintaining a racially diverse student body. But Texas and California, for different reasons, find themselves on the leading edge of a movement to roll back even such nonquota efforts at affirmative action. The entire Texas university system was forced to change its policies when the Supreme Court let stand an appeals court's 1996 ruling in favor of four white students who sued U.T. law school for racial discrimination. This has caused significant drops in undergraduate minority admissions...
Most infuriating for foreign sellers are Japan's myriad nontariff, nonquota trade barriers, many of which remain firmly in place. One of the most effective hurdles is Japan's all but impenetrable, multi-layered distribution system, largely controlled by the giant trading houses. After the many middlemen take their cuts, the price of a U.S.-made refrigerator passing through the distribution network can cost the consumer up to $1,000. Government "testing" of imported autos has also been a sore point for U.S. and European carmakers, mainly because Japanese standards are often set capriciously. Says U.S. Trade Representative...
...would be granted to spouses and unmarried children of aliens living permanently in the U.S. Any unused visas would be for other relatives of U.S. residents and for workers with "lesser skills." Parents of U.S. citizens and natives of recently independent Western Hemisphere nations would be given immediate nonquota status...
...that scare and trouble, and no lava." The truth is that many Sao Jorgeans were hoping to share the fate of the victims of a 1957 volcanic eruption which poured ash over the neighboring island of Faial. The U.S. Congress passed Public Law 85-892 providing 1,500 special nonquota immigrant visas for destitute Faialeans, and they sailed off happily to live...
Once the quota nations have had their share, the U.S. can make up any remaining sugar deficit by buying from such nonquota nations as Brazil, which is ready to sell up to 300,000 tons of surplus sugar this year, and Australia, which has more than 200,000 tons available. For sugar bought from nonquota nations, the U.S. will also pay its higher quota price...