Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Spring the city sent a resident physician at the city hospital to the Phillipines to seek interns for next year, it was also revealed at Monday night's meeting. The mission was reportedly successful, and the hospital has secured its quota of interns from Filipino medical schools...
...always doing things like holding press conferences in Bermuda shorts or showing up for tennis at the Newport Casino clothed in gorgeous hues of canary yellow and powder blue instead of the traditional white. Even when he quit gagging, his audience sometimes kept on laughing. Once, after his usual quota of jokes, he told his listeners that he wanted to discuss education in a serious, nonpolitical vein. The audience roared, and Pierre later wondered exasperatedly, "What was so funny about that...
...group's recommendations for relieving discrimination in employment emphasized the responsibilities of private as well as government enterprises in ensuring Negro job opportunities. It cautioned, however, against "discrimination in reverse" through quota systems which would give Negroes preference over more capable whites. A Fair Employment Practices Commission to oversee both hiring practice and union apprenticeship regulations was also proposed...
...There are only six doctors for the entire camp, and in the suffocating heat (110° in the shade) children die like flies. East Pakistan has erected dozens of its own refugee camps. To hasten integration of the newcomers, some local officials have ordered villages to absorb a fixed quota of the refugees, who come in relentless hundreds each...
...make sure that a quorum of at least 51 pro-rights Senators is on hand at all times, Humphrey has organized six six-man Democratic teams, each captained by "quorum whips," and will supply 36 men whenever the bells begin clanging. The Republicans are responsible for a 15-man quota. Humphrey has set up a master chart of out-of-town engagements for the next two months for all Democrats, has also established a special phone-communication system with several Democratic Senators' offices...