Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bender explained that there has never been a quota or specific policy on accepting commuters. He explained that men in the Boston area admitted to the freshman class often decide to live in dorms. As a result, Bender said, this year's commuting class is the smallest in modern Harvard history...
Henri Navarre is an individualist, but a cold and aloof one whose quota of wit, urbanity and charm shows itself only at small, usually intimate gatherings. "He is just a retiring man who suffers in society," says his only son, Jacques, 27, who is a businessman in Paris. Attractive to women, a man of taste (his Paris apartment houses a Goya, a Reynolds, a portrait of Madame's distinguished Napoleonic ancestor Murat), and a fancier of cats (because of their independence and aloofness), he was once described by a friend: "There is an 18th century fragrance about...
...Portuguese colonizers in neighboring Mozambique. The British, newcomers themselves, gave the tribesmen squatters' rights, but insisted that in return they pay "rent" by working a fixed number of hours each week on the white men's plantations. Last year, without warning, the colonial government increased the work quota...
Only about half of the eligible farmers voted, but their decision was clear-cut: for Government marketing quotas 361,000; against, 53,000. To throw the'quota machinery into gear, the favorable vote had to be at least two-thirds of the vote cast. It was 87.2%, the biggest margin U.S. farmers have ever given a Government grain-quota proposal...
...Korea last week, Army Secretary Robert Stevens jarred the post-truce hopes of a million potential draftees back home by announcing that the U.S. would maintain its present strength in Korea for at least "several years." In Washington, the Defense Department was more specific: the monthly quota of 23,000 draftees will probably be maintained through 1953. Then, barring drastic international crisis, draft quotas will drop to 19,000 per month during the first half of 1954. But beginning in July 1954, the number will jump to 45,000 a month. Reasons: 1) since the big buildup...