Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic feet. Others are contradictory, and even self-defeating. Examples: CJ U.S. Marshall Plan experts helped the Danes expand their blue-cheese industry, so that Denmark could earn the dollars it needed to buy U.S. goods. But when the Danes started selling their cheese, the U.S. imposed a quota to keep all but a sliver of foreign blue cheese out. CJ The U.S. lays great stress on the 1921 Anti-Dumping Act, which protects domestic markets from the unfair competition of foreign products sold below cost. Yet under the burden of its surpluses,* the U.S. is peddling abroad $1.4 billion...
Complaints about these, and countless other anomalies, pour into Washington each week. Last month GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) censured the U.S. for restricting dairy imports by quota. The London Economist wrote: "The U.S. is seeking two worlds-one where it can sell its sur pluses freely, and another where no other country can sell farm products freely to it." Said an angry Japanese businessman: "The Americans tell us not to trade with the Communists, then they turn around and raise their duties on silk scarves. It doesn't make sense...
...much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take so many pills," he said, "they have to fight among themselves if I take them too close to gether." His daily quota of alcohol, though still substantial enough to keep him in good standing among the alltime public enemies of the W.C.T.U., had fallen far below the old records. Gone were the uninhibited, wine-purpled, 100-proof, side-of-the-mouth bottle-swigging days of the swashbuckling young Ernest Hemingway...
...always been able to allot at least two sections to graduate students in the past," Lunden explained. "But the combination of free undergraduate tickets and the quota to Yale make seating graduate students virtually impossible...
...Force ROTC unit here dropped 49 members of this year's junior class because they could not fly and didn't come under the limited quota of non-flyers. The Army unit has not yet curtailed its enrollment with such severity, but the threat has existed since the Korean war ended, and the scare flares perennially. Thus it would seem more reasonable for the Air Force and Army to instruct their first an dsecond-year students in the instruct their first and second-year students in the general, basic areas of their programs rather than in the technical aspects...