Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applications, if enough of these applications are available. Each Master must choose comparable numbers of students from public and private schools and in different positions on the rank list. A Committee of Review headed by Dean Watson checks the distribution, and fills the last 30 per cent of each quota from a pool of unassigned freshmen...
Instead of spawning political patronage, an informal communications system among personal offices might indirectly reduce nepotism in the capital. In the past, if an agency ruled an applicant unqualified or if it had already filled its temporary job quota, it filed his application away and forgot him. Since many government bureaus do not know how many students they can use until April or May, notices of hirings are not distributed until it is too late for unsuccessful applicants to inquire elsewhere. A system to allow personnel officials to refer rejected applicants to one another would enlarge the pool of qualified...
...these requirements. The Wonder Bread company probably would never have hired Negroes, except as janitors of drivers on undesirable routes, if BAG's boycott had proved ineffective. And to make their campaign succeed, BAG spokesman had to be able to point to an unfilled quota--a number of jobs from which qualified Negroes were barred...
...quota system cannot work properly where qualified persons are scarce or qualification difficult to determine. The jobs BAG demanded, however, require only minimal skills--the ability to drive a truck or do simple arithmetic. And BAG had more than enough qualified Negroes available; several of them had already applied...
...make their quota inflexible. It adjusted it s demands from twelve to seven jobs when it learned that an automated plant the company was building would reduce the number of jobs available to BAG applicants. The Group was formed to end discrimination, not to boycott companies for spite. Indeed, BAG must have the cooperation of businessmen if it is to realize its long-range objectives, for these men will do the hiring. Hopefully, BAG will continue to use the reasonable methods that have been so effective against Wonder bread...