Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Macias, a sleepy-eyed, impetuous demagogue, noted that Spanish officials in Bata, the capital, had had the temerity to fly three Spanish flags over official buildings-one beyond the quota. Late in February, he sent his personal guard to haul one flag down. When the Spanish ambassador dropped by to discuss the matter, Macias ordered him out of his office and cabled Madrid to demand that he be recalled. A few days later, Foreign Minister Ndongo and U.N. Ambassador Ibongo (also a Fang) arrived in Bata and the situation deteriorated still further...
There will be no quota on the number of men who can eat at the Center, located at 6 Ash Street, near the Loeb Drama Center. Radcliffe students have been allowed to eat lunch on interhouse for several years. Lunch hours are from...
...posts; it would also have provided ample opportunity for political fence mending on company time, as it were. As an added lure, Humphrey was offered veto power over all Democratic appointees to the Nixon Administration in Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, White House and regulatory-agency posts. He was guaranteed a quota of Democrats to place in these jobs. As U.N. Ambassador, he would also have had Nixon's go-ahead to spend whatever time he felt necessary to rebuild the Democratic party. Finally, said Nixon, he knew that Humphrey would make plans to run against...
...might have predicted the lobby had its quota of potted plants that almost looked real, as well as a man in a light linen suit who stopped reading the Magnolia Daily Defender as I strode into the library. As the receiver hit the cradle of the phone she looked at the card, then looked at me, then said, more with her eyes than with her mouth, "Oh, so you're Mr. Wilson." By the time she said this I hand handed my bag to the bellhop and was taking out my pen t sign the room slip. Presented with...
Please don't sweat your exams. They'll be over very soon and their CSQ (Cosmological Significance Quota) is very small. Remember Dylan Thomas and how happy he would have been to be in Cambridge today. As he nostalgically wrote to one of his friends here: "Please have a thousand boilermakers for me and send me your stomach; I'll put it under my pillow...