Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honor guard, no military band. And not until half an hour after Kosygin's arrival did Radio Havana get around to mentioning the visit. Even then, it gave only a brief announcement barely longer than another item praising workers of the Balcan pasteurization plant for delivering their quota of yoghurt...
...main copper-exporting countries gathered in the sweltering Zambian capital of Lusaka on June 1, the copper-consuming nations had every reason to worry. The idea, as conceived last fall by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and Chilean President Eduardo Frei, was to set up a price-and-quota-fixing copper cartel to control the world market. After all, their countries plus Peru and the Congo produce 70% of the earth's copper sold for export. * With economies largely based on copper, all four nations have suffered as the price of the red metal outside the U.S. tumbled from nearly...
They can vote in today's referendum to put a quota on the number of boys allowed in an evening. The vision of turning away the end of the line is truly absurd. Or they can vote to keep out grad students, who don't use reserve books anyway. Or they can vote to get rid of the boys altogether. Cliffies should know better...
...translation used for the Leverett production contains many brilliant strokes and the usual quota of ridiculous lines. The singers took great pains to make the words clear, but many were inevitably lost in the ferocious pace. Given their care, it was worthwhile to do the opera in English; many as of the scenes, and above all the finale of the fourth act, were excruciatingly funny. Dramatically as well as musically, this is a memorable Marriage of Figaro...
...proportion of public school students in the class will continue its one per cent yearly growth, Smith said. He explained that there had been more applications from public school students and that the increase was not the result of any admissions quota. In recent years approximately 58 per cent of the freshman class have been public school graduates...