Word: quota
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ROTC is at Harvard because the services want to enlist the prestige of Harvard's name in their recruitment efforts. The units here are extremely small--the Army unit during the past several years has repeatedly failed to meet even the minimal quota of commissioned officers by which a unit justifies its existence. Elsewhere a unit which isn't producing officers might be closed down. But not here. Harvard's ROTC units have a more important function than producing officers: they lend legitimacy and prestige to the whole concept of military training on the nation's campuses...
...storage in Government computers. But Nixon Adviser John Ehrlichman was quick to assure: "Computers won't be picking people-people will be picking people." Ehrlichman added that no special effort will be made to recruit members of minority races "in the sense that we will have a quota of 12% Negroes because that is the ratio of Negroes to the total population. That would be artificial...
Surpassing the Quota. JOBS stands for Job Opportunites in the Business Sector, and is the project of the National Alliance of Businessmen. The Alliance was called together by President Johnson early this year for the express purpose of finding 100,000 jobs for the hard-core unemployed by the end of June 1969, and 400,000 more by 1971, as well as summer jobs for youth. Under the titular leadership of Henry Ford II and the hard-driving personal direction of a Ford vice president...
Beebe, the program has earned such enthusiastic response from companies around the country that pledges have already reached 165,000, and jobs are now being filled at the rate of 20,000 a month. Nineteen of the 50 participant cities have surpassed their optimistic quotas. Detroit, stunningly, has quadrupled its quota...
...goal of the admissions office, according to Paul Tierney, administrative assistant for the MBA Program, is to include a representative quota of the nation's minority groups by 1972-73 in each class of between 600 and 700 students. This will mean about 90 minority group students in that year, with a projected allocation...