Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year. The promises of help, in fact, got under way before the conference. Canada announced earlier in the week that it would accept 50,000 refugees by the end of 1980, Britain that it would absorb 10,000 from overcrowded Hong Kong. The U.S. had already increased its quota from 7,000 to 14,000 a month...
...even save, a drop of oil. The only element that takes effect promptly is a presidential order limiting imports this year to an average 8.2 million bbl. a day. American oil companies almost surely could not find much more than that to bring in even if there were no quota; imports so far in 1979 have averaged only 8.145 million bbl. a day. For 1980 the daily limit will be set somewhere between 8.2 million and 8.5 million bbl. Because the recession in the U.S. economy has begun, imports probably would not exceed that level in any case...
...Weber decision contrasted sharply with the Supreme Court's ruling last year in the case of Allan Bakke, the white who was denied admission to the medical school of the University of California at Davis because of a minority quota. In Bakke, the court took a muddled position on the reverse-discrimination issue: it said no to explicit quotas for minorities, at least in admissions to publicly supported universities, but it also declared that, yes, race could be a factor in choosing applicants. It did not speak at all to the issue of the fairness of affirmative action...
Though the decision stressed the importance of employers voluntarily setting up affirmative-action programs, it is likely that the government will use Weber to push for outright quota systems for minorities. Says Stanley Kaleczyc, associate general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "This decision will give the EEOC more reason to press companies that have been laying back...
...more than $50,000 to set "goals and timetables" for bringing their minority and female work force up to their percentages in the available labor pool. About 325,000 employers, with a total payroll of 30 million workers, have these programs. The goals are not supposed to be inflexible quotas, though in practice it can be hard to tell a "goal" from a "quota...