Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...
...Bakke side, they've been hit with two arguments, one reactionary and the other much more subtle. The reactionary argument (advanced by the B'Nai B'rith Society and Bakke himself, is that in rejecting Allan Bakke, a white man, while accepting "less qualified" blacks under a special "quota" system, U.C. Davis discriminated against Bakke on the basis of his race and thus violated his equal rights under the 14th amendment. The more subtle stance, (taken by the American Jewish Committee) is that the U.C. Davis program constituted a "quota" system and that while affirmative action measures and guidelines...
...state Supreme Court upheld the ruling that the special admissions program constitutes a racial quota system and violates the 14th amendment. In addition, when the regents conceded they could not prove Bakke would not have been admitted in the absence of the special program, the state supreme court ordered U.C. Davis admit him, reversing the trial court's ruling on that point...
...Soviets modified their proposal that U.S. planes armed with cruise missiles be counted against the MIRV quota...
...Okies of the 30's were absorbed back into the cities when the labor market expanded during World War II. The Filipinos were not so lucky. One Filipino man told me that they came with a quota of 2 per cent women, and when they arrived the state of California passed anti-miscegenation laws, so that a Filipino man could only marry a Filipino woman. Only there were very few Filipino women--so today almost all the older Filipino men are bachelors...