Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What seemed to irk the dealers most was a practice not confined to Dodge. Automakers rebate from $50 to $100 of the price of a new car to dealers who meet or top monthly sales quotas set by the factory. Because the quotas vary from dealer to dealer even in the same area, they complained, the rebates give low-quota dealers a price advantage over their competitors. On top of that, dealers who consistently fail to meet their sales quotas lose their franchises. Yet neither Dodge nor other dealers can sell a franchise without factory approval of the buyer...
...draft has not interfered with the University much this Fall. Though the draft quota for October soared to a Korean-War level of over 45,000 and the quota for November will be near 40,000, almost no one in the College or graduate schools has been affected. A few students have been forced to curtail leaves of absence but "There has been no increase in pressure," says Dean Monro, "and if there had been, I think I wold have heard...
...ALUMINUM. The Common Market is trying to retain its present 9% tariff on primary aluminum, but has offered to admit a token quota of 100,000 tons at a lower rate of 5%. The U.S., which levies 51% on aluminum, and other countries want the Common Market to reduce its basic rate, would prefer to make aluminum duty-free everywhere...
...Quotas or Ghettos. Part of the problem, of course, is to persuade Negroes not to inundate one area out of proportion to their 10% share of the population. In the New York suburb of Hempstead, front lawns were forested with FOR SALE signs after the first Negroes arrived, and there were fears that the neighborhood might turn into a suburban ghetto. But calmer residents decided to hang" on. Forming a community association, they saved their hardest sell for prospective white buyers to replace families that had left, urged Negroes to avoid a wholesale rush into the area. Given a choice...
...take in an extra roommate. Harvard has an obligation to limit this confusion as much as possible. One clear way is to abandon its traditionally hostile attitude towards off-campus living--if only temporarily while the Housing shortage persists. It should not keep one House's off-campus quota down, if others go unfilled. It should make sure that students in all the Houses have some knowledge of the possibilities of living off; one suspects that the poor response from some of the Houses may have reflected unfamiliarity as much as anything else...