Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College's severe room shortage, equal prices may lead to a wholly unsatisfactory and unfair system of room distribution. With singles and economy doubles uniformly priced, many students are determined to live alone. Since the College hasn't enough singles to go around, most dorms are instituting a class quota system and with the lucky winners chosen by lot, many seniors writing theses and girls psychologically unprepared for crowding may nevertheless forced to couple...
...million into a new mill and refinery. Within a few years, Florida's raw cane production is expected to be five times the 175,000 tons it is today. So confident are Florida producers, says Vaughn, that even though they could not meet their last year's quota, they will lobby hard with Congress for a 3.6% quota increase to 800,000 tons and a bigger share of the unfilled allotments of other producing areas...
...course of the 1960 presidential campaign, Jacqueline Kennedy got a full quota of wound stripes. A malicious rumor was dry-docked at New York's River Club that Joe Kennedy had given Jackie a million dollars not to divorce Jack. An Ohio woman remarked darkly that "she's both French and Catholic. The wine will flow in the White House." Gossip columnists reported seriously that Jackie was not pregnant-that it was all an elaborate hoax to remove her from the campaign scene. Her biggest battle-the affair of the sable underwear-was touched off when Women...
...continent emerging into freedom, Africa has developed a high quota of power grabbers...
...nibblers and the gobblers to the downright gluttons-reducing is a war with the will that is rarely won. Physiologist Keys flatly dismisses such appetite depressants as the amphetamines (Benzedrine, Dexedrine) as dangerous "crutches for a weak will." Keys has no such objections to Metrecal, Quaker Oats's Quota and other 900-calorie milk formulas that are currently winning favor from dieters. "Metrecal is a pretty complete food," he says. "It contains large amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals. In the quantity of 900 calories a day, anyone will lose weight...