Word: quota
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University is actively involved in an effort to secure qualified Negro students, he continued, and is "even paying to prepare several to enter the college by sending them to preparatory schools in New England. To my knowledge, the only quota or limit placed upon a Negro's entry into Harvard is found in the low economic status of Negroes generally and in the poor educational facilities available to many Negroes...
Terence Hawkes, of University College in Cardiff, England, leveled the charge in a letter to the Guardian's editors. "I think it is still true to say that Harvard and many other 'Ivy League' colleges select their students on the fundamentally undemocratic and manifestly illegal basis of 'quota.'" Hawkes wrote. "Only a certain number of Jewish and Negro student are admitted each year, regardless of academic prowess...
...both sides have modified their conflicting all or nothing demands. In the second, the U.S. insists either on limiting the treaty to surface and under water tests or else on unlimited inspection rights, unacceptable to the Russians, who demanded a veto power. The eventual compromise will probably be a quota of on-site inspections, an idea first proposed by Prime Minister Macmillan...
Britain wiped out import quotas on all but a handful of U.S. goods that have been barred or restricted for 20 years. Its gesture is expected to whet demand for American-style cocktail dresses and printed skirts, other readymade clothing of new, washable fabrics that are still high-priced in Britain. Novelties such as blue jeans, California apple juice, well-designed U.S. toys, and costume jewelry should also fare well. But Detroit automakers expect no gain, since steep British import duties and sales taxes, added to transport costs, double U.S. price tags. U.S. cars are considered too big, too flary...
...domestically produced goods in Europe and Japan tend to be cheaper and better tailored to national tastes than most heavily taxed U.S. imports, some governments may even prefer to see real competition in some fields, e.g., textiles, rather than U.S. retaliation against their own dollar exports. Another effect of quota relaxations may be to prompt U.S. manufacturers to design goods specifically for European markets. Competition, said Antoine Pinay, is "the best of stimulants and the most effective of disciplines...