Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monetary Fund, which makes loans to bolster shaky currencies. With demand rising for IMF credit, Fund Boss Per Jacobsson wants to put bite on IMF's member nations to boost their contributions 30% to 35%. If raise is okayed, U.S. will have to add $1 billion to its quota of 2.75 billion...
Nineteen states have already established flu advisory councils; the Red Cross is advertising home nursing courses especially for the feared onslaught; confused priority and quota systems for vaccine distribution are being mulled over by local and national health authorities; and a small vaccine black market is in operation...
...verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After a 14-day interval in which it cautiously banned street sales within 30 miles of Boston, the Monitor last week resumed distribution in the city, but it did not have the press capacity to boost its normal newsstand quota...
Hank Aaron is a predictable quantity-he gets his quota of base hits no matter what happens to the Braves. In last week's key series, he peered at the Phillies' pitchers with sleepy eyes, the end of his bat twitching ominously like the tail of a prowling panther. He seemed almost to be napping as the ball started toward him, but at the last instant he snapped his powerful wrists and the bat whistled in a perfectly coordinated arc. When he was through swinging against the Phils, Aaron had smashed out six hits in seven tries...
From the plains of eastern Washington to western Nebraska's prairie, wheat farmers last week voted overwhelmingly (83.3% in early returns) for continuing federal quotas-and high price supports-on the nation's No. 3 grain crop. Prime incentive in the voting: a $1.78-per-bu. federal guarantee for wheat grown under the quota system (v. $1.19 if controls were dropped). Spat Farmer D. O. Yost of Emporia, Kans.: "It's just like offering a kid the choice of 50? or 75? allowance a week, and asking him which he'd rather have...