Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about $13,000 a year. By Mormon rule, the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contribute half of the chapel's cost; the ward's members must pay the rest. The Mormons of Federal Heights have collected most of their cash quota, but they decided to supplement it by taking advantage of an old custom of the church that allows members to "work off" part of their assessments. Says Ward Bishop George R. Hill, a professor of fuel technology at the University of Utah: "We like to feel that part of our sweat...
About the only East Texans enthusiastic for the investigation are the major operators, who under a quota system are allowed to pump only 20 bbl. per well daily-and that only eight days a month...
...really as as they thought and that the non-intellectuals, in quotes, were really quite valuable after all." The experiment resulted in a student body of "narrow intellectuals," and the school's appearance declined so much that five years administration had trouble finding enough students to fill its quota...
immigration is limited to a quota of 105 Chinese a year, but President Kennedy last week authorized the immediate entry of 5,000 Hong Kong Chinese-they will not be new refugees from over the border, but skilled and educated Chinese from an already processed list of 19,000 who have been waiting for years for U.S. visas. On Formosa, President Chiang Kai-shek ordered that all refugees who wanted to come to Formosa be admitted, after political screening...
...other nation, West or East, has proved willing to enlarge its Chinese quota. Why did the Chinese Reds allow the refugees to get out, thereby offering the world plain proof of the Communist system's failures in China? The reason, in all likelihood, was that the Peking regime did not want to keep masses of potential troublemakers within its borders -and perhaps maliciously enjoyed Hong Kong's difficulties. The British formally urged Peking to halt the flood. The Reds may or may not have listened to the protest, but at week's end, the stream of refugees...