Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this by contributing to the Radcliffe quota for either the proposed Harvard-Radcliffe Health Center or the Harvard-Radcliffe Theatre. Both these projects, which were announced this year, represent considerable forward steps in the development of closer relations between the University and its "sister college...
...about themselves, or rather, in their usual way, double thinking or squint thinking about themselves, in terms of dawns, and ands, and buts, and onwards, and dew, and dusk, while at the same time making a lot of good hard cash to the evocative vocabulary of traffic, tax, protection, quota, levy, duties, or subsidies while compiling a third and wholly different literary style (pious, holy, prudent, sterling, gorsoons, lassies, maidens, sacred, traditional, forefathers, mothers, grandmothers, ancestors, deeprooted, olden, venerable, traditions, Gaelic, timeworn, and immemmorial) to dodge the more awkward social, moral and political problems that any country might, with considerable...
...loans. Since the average worker in Russia has usually been encouraged to buy bonds totalling about three weeks' worth of his annual salary, this is an economic blessing. In return for this boon he can virtually bid his present investments farewell. Yet the worker who has been buying his quota every year probably never had much hope for his future investment...
...Shaw takes some roundhouse swings at the medical profession. The Harvard Dramatic Club production of the play makes his blows land where they should--but only occasionally. The truth is that Shaw himself sometimes misses, for this is not one of his most satisfactory plays. It contains the usual quota of talk, and much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play, however, is the totally unnecessary...
...affairs, were cited as harmful to manufacturers. Excessive tariff concessions on woolens and worsteds, made at Geneva in 1948, were a factor in the 50 per cent decline of this segment of the industry. A partial compensation for this policy is an agreement with Japan to put a voluntary quota on cotton exports. "Our position," Harris stated, "was that the burden ... of solving the Japanese problems should not be put excessively on cotton textiles...