Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curve of Holyoke Street, flanking Eliot and Lowell, there is Winthrop. Lacking a white tower, a solitudinous quadrangle, bushy lumps of ivy, and a Great Panoramic View of the environs a slightly threadbare Winthrop allots itself between the two halls of Gore and Standish. The House, though, has its quota of Veritas chairs. And a coat of arms. And lots of people...
...best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev's promise to give the Soviet people more bread again was thwarted. The fall guy for 1962 naturally was Pysin; this year it could very well be Volovchenko. As the new Agriculture Minister must be painfully aware, he is the fourth...
...McFarland, director of personnel services at GM, explained that under the latter plan, winners of national scholarships tended to concentrate in a small number of select colleges, like Harvard in an effort to include more colleges in the program, GM imposed in 1960 a quota on the number of national winners that any one institution could have...
...quota system lowered the number of national GM scholars at Harvard from 31 to eight. However the University felt that the quota discriminated against very able students who might have been awarded GM scholarships if they had gone to another college, and President Pusey formally objected to the quota system in a letter to General Motors...
...Fair Share. At the White House, Betancourt argued that Venezuela should be on an equal footing with Canada and Mexico. At the very least, he insisted, it should be consulted before U.S. oil policies are drastically revised. Kennedy agreed "in principle" that the quota system discriminates against Venezuela, promised to see to it "in practice" that Venezuela gets its fair share of the market. On Cuba, the two men had no argument. Said Betancourt: "The government that I head and I personally have taken a position toward the Communist regime in Havana and toward international Communism that is free...