Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell House, which last year contributed $80 on the first evening, gave $946.76. Kirkland trailed its opening night total last year by 18 cents, contributing $710. Freshmen contributed $2258, slightly less than last year, but only 30 per cent of the new Yard quota. Last year's Monday evening drive collected 40 per cent of the Yardling goal...
Radcliffe receipts totalled $663.50, or 22 per cent of the quota for the 'Cliffe. This is the first year Cliffies have been included in the drive...
...acted inflexibly and impolitically in cutting the sugar quota, severing relations and sabotaging their economy; but Castro's readiness to accept Soviet support proves him a congenital communist. And now that he has (or had) missile bases, the mistakes of the past are irrelevant, anyway...
...Siberia; he gave the same excuse for the virgin lands of northern Kazakhstan, where the harvest would be far below expectations. In the Ukraine, bread basket of the Soviet Union, the wheat crop was "somewhat worse than last year." but party officials hoped to meet their overall grain quota by producing more corn (used for cattle fodder) than last year. The only bright spot that Khrushchev reported was in Great Russia, where a "record" grain harvest was reaped; a record by how much. Nikita discreetly declined...
...Commission should avoid implying that there is some magic number of Negroes that a firm must employ to keep the investigator from the door. It must not forget that any quota system, no matter how generous the quotas, denies the principle that an individual's opportunity for housing, employment, or education should be in no way dependent upon his race...