Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Resting in the foothills of the Rockies, Boulder, Colo. (pop. 85,000), has been called "the nicest small town in the U.S." It wants to stay that way: last year it put a quota of 450 on the construction of new houses as a means of limiting population growth to 2% a year...
Neither Dileo nor Stepak encountered, as Bakke did, a specific numerical quota reserving places for minorities. But quotas are a burning issue in several reverse-discrimination employment cases, arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights...
...Detroit, a federal judge threw out a voluntary quota system adopted by the Detroit Police Department. Since 1974, in making promotions to the rank of sergeant, officials have skipped over some 200 white officers who had ranked higher than black officers on promotional eligibility lists, primarily on the basis of an exam. At one point, 29 new white sergeants were chosen in strict numerical rank from the top of a 298-man promotional eligibility list; then a matching group of blacks was promoted. Among the new black sergeants, the highest-ranking was 36th; the others ranged as far down...
...France on the road to financial reform after 50 years of inflation and deterioration of the franc; in Paris. A firm advocate of the gold standard as an economic foundation for all Western countries, Rueff in 1958 carried out a drastic reduction in borrowing, the removal of nearly all quota restrictions for international trade and most significantly, the creation of a new franc (worth 100 old francs), which helped restore France's balance of trade and built up its gold reserves...
...obsessed producer of fiction. At one point he set himself a quota of 1,200,000 words a year, 365 days a year (days off had to be made up). He flailed away with two-finger typing until he discovered dictation. Thereafter he kept several secretaries, including three sisters named Walter, frantically busy. He thought of his mysteries as sets of components, so he rigged up a gizmo called a "plot wheel," a device with spokes radiating from the center indicating characters, situations, complications. He spun his wheel until there were points where spokes collided. Presto: another book...