Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keys to its success. He recommends that only college graduates be accepted, at least during the program's first years. Their selection, he says, should be based partly upon scholastic achievement and partly upon personality assessments. But because academic standards vary greatly throughout the country, some kind of sectional quota system may have to supplement the actual selection criteria...
...remain free, must release herself from the 2 billion dollar strangle-hold created by the U.S. and its private citizens. I have already pointed out that the U.S. refused to give Castro aid when he was trying to raise his people from their knees. Instead, we cut the sugar quota. In the eyes of the people of Latin America, the U.S. has already answered the "challenge" in terms of economic aggression--terms only too familiar to those Latin Americans who still remember what happened in Guatemala...
...curb the swelling imports of wool and worsted materials, notably from Italy and Japan, the U.S. laid down new tariffs last week. They will replace a complicated quota and tariff system in force since 1956, which, a tariff commission official candidly confessed, had "fouled up the wool trade from one end to another...
Under the old system, importers could bring in certain amounts of woolens under a quota and pay a tariff based on 25% of value. After the quota was filled, the tariff jumped to 45%. The result was that the U.S. manufacturers often did not know whether the woolens they had ordered would be imported under the lower or higher tariff. The new system is simpler. The Government will set no quotas, but the tariff will be higher. Importers will pay a flat rate of 37½ per lb., plus 38% of value on woolens valued at more than...
...looks as though he never got to the first conjugation, let alone the Gallic Wars. And Antoninus, a Roman poet, is played by Actor Curtis with an accent which suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that looks like nothing seen in Rome before the 19th century), slobbery sentiment ("Be gentle with me. I'm going to have a baby"), a generous helping of cheesecake (Actress Simmons takes a bath in which she womanfully breasts the waves), and barrels...