Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pottery plant; the others ragpick or beg for scraps at the back doors of restaurants. Once each day Aurelia brews a thin stew from the choicest tidbits. Says Aurelia, "We are not starving here." Every dictator who ever looted a Latin American treasury has left behind his small quota of conspicuous public housing works, which barely scratches the surface. Last February in Mexico City, the government inaugurated a much more ambitious $2,560,000 social welfare center, which will provide medical care, vocational training and recreation for 60,000 slum dwellers; the government has also started a crash program...
...carry 'em to the bridge and send 'em back." Defensively, he added: "What are we gonna do with 'em? Hong Kong's bursting at the seams with Chinese refugees. Formosa won't have them. The United States has a strict quota system-and don't send them to Australia, thank you.'' The grim question of refugees from Red China got a rare public hearing last week in Hong Kong's Legislative Council...
...occasionally distracting. At some point between then and now, the Russians learned to use the aesthetic genius of the early movies in a more natural way, without degenerating into the general conventionality of Soviet painting, or the sterility of most of socialist realism. A Summer to Remember includes its quota of trite sequences, but for the most part it uses inspired photographic imagery to express believably the feelings and imagination of a charming little...
Last Sunday, Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, told the Hillel Round Table that quota systems in bi-racial housing projects raise "serious ethical problems...
...Test of Quality. Despite such paternalism, Hershey has had its full quota of labor trouble. A sitdown strike in 1937 set off a head-cracking battle between union and nonunion employees; in another bitter strike in 1953, the union was defeated in its demand for a closed shop. But since then, says the local agent of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bakery and Confectionery Workers, "our relationship has been progressively better...