Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to maintain a quota of female concentrators, the concentration may fill spots vacated by already admitted women only with other women, Robert L. Amdur said...
History and Lit, another selective concentration, does not use a waiting list or a sex quota because it admits students three times during the academic year, James D. Wilkinson, the concentration's head tutor, said last week...
This method, passed by CHUL last year, requires that Collier determine a "pain factor" for each House based primarily on the average amount of room space available in each House. After setting the relative discomfort caused by crowding in each House, Collier is then to set the quota of students assigned to each House in order to equalize crowding in all Houses...
...they could against a culture that had a stranglehold on the Jewish population in general-and a double one on Jewish Women. Over and over again, the theme that emerges from these autobiographies is the struggle for education-a struggle against the anti-Semitic government that enforced a rigid quota system to limit Jewish attendance at state schools, and a struggle against the Jewish religion itself, which set up learning as the highest good and then decreed that is was the preserve of Jewish men only...
...getting the message. This week both House and Senate are expected to pass a bill extending U.S. jurisdiction over coastal waters from its present twelve miles to 200 miles; President Ford's signature is likely. Under the bill, which will take effect next March, the Government will enforce quotas on how many fish can be caught, and by whom, within the 200-mile "resource zone." U.S. fishermen will net as much of the quota as they physically can; foreign vessels will be licensed to catch only the remainder. TIME Correspondent David Wood, who has covered the fishing industry dockside...