Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Konrad Adenauer, to accept a military draft is but a symptom, though an important one, of feelings in France and Holland. Adenauer reasons that if America can afford to institute a manpower cut that will spell pulling out of our European bases, Germany need not meet its violently unpopular quota of 500,000 men in arms...
...Stakhanovite record for all satelliteland. In August, it was announced, Hero of Socialist Labor Vasilache turned out work equal to six times his norm every day. Vasilache totted up past performances and reported proudly in Rominia Libera: "Thanks to these accomplishments, I was able to start work on my quota for the year...
...Graduate School of American and Foreign Law, which takes in a special annual quota of students from Latin America, offers a one-year Master of Laws degree to students from any friendly free nation outside the U.S., and underwrites professors carrying on legal research and writing projects...
Social Record. Counting remedial "workers' and peasants' faculties," there are 46 institutions of higher education in East Germany, with an enrollment of 100,000. Admission to any one of them is controlled from East Berlin through local, politically oriented selection commissions. Under the government's present quota system, 65% of the nation's college students must be recruited from the "workers' and peasants' class," with priority for the remaining openings given to members of the "productive intelligentsia" (i.e., "deserving activists," "deserving teachers of the people," "deserving inventors," college professors), and to such heterogeneous categories...
Behind such gobbledygook was an apparent desire to sweeten the educational pill. One possible way for the "nonproductive" intellectual to skirt the quota system: by enlistment for a two-year tour of duty in the East German army...