Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...object of Luther's wrath might well be the bureaucratization of the churches. Although one target of the Reformation was the overweening power of the Roman Curia, hardly a U.S. church exists without a frightening quota of red tape and organizational concern. "The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's." Bureaucratic business goes hand in hand with clerical direction of the churches. "It is one of the great ironies of history," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's Claremont School of Theology, "that whereas Protestantism began...
...President's plan also includes providing the District with "an ample quota' 'of supergrade executive positions. The independent agencies which now form part of the D.C. government, such as the National Capital Planning Commission, would not be affected by the reorganization...
...take an other generation before anybody can decide on a suitable monument to him in Washington. The project began in 1959 with a nationwide competition that produced (out of 574 entries) a design by Sculptor Norman Hoberman for eight soaring concrete and marble tablets covered with Roosevelt quota tions. "Instant Stonehenge," hooted the critics, and the late President's family turned it down cold. Last week a second effort, by famed Architect Marcel Breuer, was brusquely and unanimous ly rejected - this time by the Washington Fine Arts Commission. Breuer's design envisaged free-standing walls radiating from...
...recommended that college education begin at the end of sophomore year in high school. The four years of college were then to provide a general education in preparation for specialized study in post-graduate years. The liberal education program was not organized as in most American colleges, where a quota of courses from each broad area of knowledge was assumed to expose the student to several disciplines. It was hoped at Chicago that students would study and become proficent in the important intellectual thought processes which had formed Western civilization. As Hutchins...
...Interclub Committee (ICC) issued a statement that read: "The ICC recognizes the right of every club to be selective. Selectivity implies the right of a club to impose a religious quota, if it so desires." But this is no longer the case, everyone at Princeton will tell...