Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aide denied that the program would in any way influence current Congressional bills to establish a state-by-state quota system for student summer employment...
...intelligent observer can easily report such bitter remarks, some of which I myself heard, as were made by certain participants in the recent National Conference on Religion and Race [Jan. 25]. Religious bodies in the U.S. deserve their quota of blame for neglect of the acute racial issue. But I fail to see past failures as an excuse for scoffing at an honest effort to marshal joint religious forces in an all-out assault upon the rapidly growing spirit of racial hatred. Are we to leave untried the power of a united appeal to our country's conscience just...
...spite of an American-looking name, Frank Martin was born in 1890 in Switzerland. After winning the usual quota of academic musical prizes, around 1925 he began to experiment with the rhythms of new music, and five years later made contact with Schoenberg's 12-tone techniques. It was an elastic collision: "I may say that, while I came under Schoenberg's influence, I opposed him with all my musical sensibility." Thus, in Le Vin Herbe, a dramatic oratorio on the Tristram legend first performed in 1942, he combined 12-tone series with chordal sequences, and in his passion oratorio...
...spring of the year, the Massachusetts legislature passed what was then widely heralded as a model law to control the finances of political campaigns. Drawn up by a special commission appointed by President Kennedy himself (John F. '41), complete with a respectable quota of Harvard professors, the law was designed to curb the exorbitant, unreported spending that had characterized so many of the campaigns in the state. Although the law placed no ceiling on total campaign expenditures, it required that every two weeks throughout the campaign the committees of all candidates for state-wide office file in the Secretary...
Last night's donations put both Claverly and Lowell House above their contribution goals, with Winthrop approaching its quota. Winthrop led the house contributions tonight with $340. Lowell House followed with $300, then Eliot, still far below its quota, with...