Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases, the President gets his way-but often not before the Senate tweaks a few noses, publicly absolves itself of future misdeeds by the appointee and throws in a few surprises. Last week the Senate looked over Richard Nixon's appointees at close range, performing its usual quota of tweaking as well as offering its own surprises...
...renewed a harsh campaign against thousands of Asian merchants in their midst. Since the majority hold British rather than local passports, black leaders in East Africa adamantly insist that the British should accept them. Britain has reacted against immigration-and its attendant demands on social services-with a new quota system, and Callaghan was hardly anxious to provoke another storm of Powellite racial tension by promising to stretch quotas...
...fact, under a 1962 law, immigration is already severely limited. It is restricted mainly to persons whose relatives already reside in Britain and to those who have received official work permits, which are issued at the rate of about 160 a week. In addition, there is a special quota for Pakistani and Indian refugees from East Africa, where black racist regimes are discriminating cruelly against residents of Asian ancestry. Commonwealth immigration has dropped from a total of 471,400 between 1955 and mid-1962 to 271,200 during the following five and a half years...
...very night of their arrival, one locomotive from the first shipment of eight was stolen, never to be recovered. Upon probing the possible motive for such a seemingly irrational act as the theft of a locomotive, I discovered that in meeting the prescribed quota of ton-kilometers-per-engine hauled, the harassed Soviet railroad official indeed stood to gain by having an extra and unaccounted-for one up his sleeve. Ironically, this locomotive got abducted before my men had a chance to change its axles to the wider track of the Russian railroads-as her crew must have found...
...goal of 30 blacks in the class of '73, was no less than they deserved. The goal, if achieved, will give blacks a share of Radcliffe's admissions commensurate with the black percentage of the nation's population. All things considered, including the debatable desirability of any sort of quota system, that goal is socially equitable, and it is to Radcliffe's credit that it has committed itself to achieving...