Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funds, Romulo put the bite on sugar barons, who contributed $250,000 after he bluntly reminded them of the favors he did for the industry while negotiating the Philippine sugar quota when he was ambassador to Washington. Lobbying in the Philippine Congress, Romulo got extra money for scholarships, fellowships, better facilities for research and graduate study, raises for the faculty...
...work of such strength, executed with such care, love and precision down to the slightest detail? Not since the war certainly." Hiking the cost of tickets up to a high of $16 for Norma and brazenly importing big-name, high-priced foreign artists in excess of the legal quota (by government decree not more than 10% of the singers can be foreign), Auric mounted new productions of Tannhäuser, Don Carlos and The Damnation of Faust. After the first two years, critics were heralding...
...lists so that all lawyers or all employees of one factory were together-making for easy (and occasionally embarrassing) comparisons. To keep the pressure up, Dessen went on the radio every noon to read the names and amounts contributed. Within three weeks CAN DO was well over its quota, with $200,000 in cash and $540,000 in bond purchases...
...Californians. Justice Black likes fellow Alabamians; Justice Clark tries to tap lesser-known law schools. Aspirants know all these quirks. "My best chance was either slipping in as one of Stewart's Yalies," said one of this year's hopefuls, "or under Warren's California quota...
Jackie was constantly on the phone. Rose Kennedy was in North Carolina, where, with Teddy, Evangelist Billy Graham and Governor Terry Sanford, she appeared at a fund-raising rally. The North Carolina "quota" for the $10 million John F. Kennedy Memorial Library on the banks of Boston's sleepy Charles River had been set at $200,000, and this rally alone produced pledges of more than that amount...