Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paid to Go Away. Even the most liberal Northern and Western schools have far fewer than the 11% black students that would match the proportion of Negroes in the population. Many have had "quota" systems for Negroes and also Jews. Most Southern med schools accept only token admissions to stay within the law governing federal support funds. Thus the vast majority of the nation's Negro doctors have been trained in two century-old medical schools created especially for them: Howard University's in Washington, and Meharry in Nashville...
...August or September, plans call for more sledding on firm ice until the long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England
...draft call for July was 15,000 and is set for 18,300 in August. September's quota has not been determined. Last spring, it was over 40,000 a month...
...nation's homes. What's more, the TV spieler has a unique license. He doesn't have to stick his foot in the door. He's already in the living room, chattering away from The Farm Hour right through Sermonette. Conveniently deaf, he just smiles and hammers home his quota of 600 "brief messages...
...guilty until proved innocent-that is, he is 1A until he can demonstrate that he deserves to be deferred. Moreover, draft boards, made up of well-intentioned but often legally untrained pillars of the community, are not courts of law. They are federal administrative agencies charged with producing a quota of inductees each month, and they have wide latitude in deciding when, why and who shall...