Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall term wasn't quite over. The administration still had time to appoint Dick Harlow as Harvard's next football coach and to set up a quota limitation on the number of concentrators to be allowed into each Department. The idea of the new plan was to make sure no discipline's tutorial staff was overstrained. President Conant recommended the establishment of several "roving" professorships in his Annual report and urged the abolition of the Latin requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree...
...incentive that helped boost farm production in the first place. Nevertheless, in Kiangsi province, Radio Nanchang exhorts daily: "The collective must come before private plots." At a commune in Kwangtung province, where peasants used to have to supply the collective with 33 Ibs. of human ordure a month, their quota has been boosted to 55 Ibs., thus limiting the only fertilizer available for freelance farming. As an added turn of the screw, production quotas for collective output have been sharply increased, in hopes that the peasants will have to spend more time working for Mao Tse-tung and less...
...proposals. In these states, the secret to successful farming is flexibility. Farmers there like to shift from crop to crop-mainly wheat, corn and soybeans-as prices and supply conditions change. But under Freeman's plan, a farmer's past wheat production would determine his marketing quota; farmers were apprehensive that establishing this wheat "history" would lock them into wheat production at the cost of flexibility...
...applications. "We're just trying to hold them off," says one. "We just don't have all that much room." One-third more Britons have also applied for permanent visas to the U.S., though in the past they have filled only 35% of their annual immigration quota...
...tuned and ready for an afternoon's cruise. Baxter's Fish Market was standing anxiously by, awaiting the order for lobsters and fish for chowder. White House Chef Rene Verdon had bought $150 worth of food at a Hyannis supermarket, and carefully insisted on his full quota of trading stamps. Years of Diplomacy. A friendly crowd of 500 was at Otis Air Force Base as Pearson's Comet touched down from Ottawa. After striding forward to meet his northern neighbor, Kennedy set the tone of the meeting. "We share more than geography," he said. "A history...