Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Previously there was no limitation on the number of first choices a Housemaster could accept, so the more popular Houses often filled their quota of vacancies with all first choice men. The overall figure for Yardling acceptances was about 80 percent first-choices...
...most part, the amnesty gave freedom to minor offenders and Russians imprisoned under the severe 1939 laws, which stipulated stiff punishment for such acts as arriving late for work, missing too many days work on the collective farm, pilfering a few nuts & bolts, falling down on the factory quota...
Henceforth, such items as French gloves and cheeses, Italian cork and coffin handles, will be admitted to the British market without quota restrictions. Swiss hoteliers rubbed their hands at the prospect of British tourists with enough money to spend a week or more instead of a few days. "A British accent" glowed London's Daily Express, "will no longer be a passport to the worst table in the restaurant...
Guri Lie, 27, daughter of the U.N.'s Trygve Lie, announced in Manhattan that she has registered as an immigrant under the Norwegian quota and will become a U.S. citizen...
...Pentagon's projected cut followed closely a statement by Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey that a tightening of the deferment policies would be necessary to maintain the present draft quota...