Word: quota
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Even with such sales, NCR still has only about a 2% share of the U.S. computer market v. the overwhelming 70% held by IBM. To narrow the gap, and to climb a few steps over other computer makers, Oelman has set what he calls a "minimum sales quota" of 5,000 Centurys worth $1 billion to be sold or rented during the next five years (initial orders last week: 208). One way NCR hopes to meet the quota is through improved technology. The company's laboratories have developed a new kind of memory system, which uses thin-film rods...
...election brought to seven the number of coeds presently heading an M.I.T. activity. Miss Kivisild attributed the increase, three over last year, to the increased number of coeds (200 out of 3700) that now attend M.I.T. Until 1964 when the quota was raised to 50, there were less than 30 admitted per class. Next year approximately 100 women will be admitted to the freshman class...
...country each month (v. only about 500 a month in former years) as a result of Kenya's intensified job and economic discrimination against them. Under the new law, Britain will admit a fixed total of 1,500 Asian household heads a year, plus their dependents. This quota covers not only the Asians still in Kenya but all of the 1,000,000 ex-colonials throughout the Commonwealth who remain Britons by law, if not by color or culture...
...sting by promising that no British citizen expelled from Kenya would be denied admission to Britain-though he would not actually write the promise into the law. Later the Home Office thoroughly muddled the situation by explaining that, even if there are a few "humanitarian" admissions, the quota system will stand. That left both critics and supporters of the law so hopelessly confused that the London Times declared: "It has been a wretched affair." Whatever the precise meaning of the law, Labor's handling of the episode left no doubt that it had been just that...
...quota does not, however, cover British passport holders who have a "substantial connection" with Britain, such as a naturalized father. The entry of nonpassport holders from the Commonwealth is already limited to 8,500 a year under a 1962 quota...