Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...besides failing at its stated goal, the quota system has one strongly negative side effect: It forces people to live in Houses, they don't want to live...
...system as it is presently constituted has one basic flaw which will keep it generating disappointed crops of students year after year. This flaw is the quota system. Under the quota system, individuals' House preferences are ignored if they don't fit into the right criteria concerning high school background, area of concentration, and rank in class...
...those articles, and would reiterate, is that too many black students enter Harvard with academic deficiencies (perhaps 40%) and that this should be avoided by raising the median SAT verbal and math scores of black students nearer to the median for Harvard College. I also argue that a quota for blacks is defensible and the proportion of blacks in Harvard College be maintained...
Only 114 freshman women applied to Radcliffe as a first choice for housing, 40 per cent less than the 187 women that the CHUL set as its quota for the Class of '76 in the Radcliffe Houses next year...
...special energy message to Congress last month, President Nixon tried to steer a middle course while easing the shortages. He acted to increase supplies of foreign oil by abolishing the rigid import quota system and replacing it with a flexible system of tariffs on imported oil. To spur domestic output, Nixon ordered the Interior Department to triple by 1979 the amount of federal acreage leased to oil and gas companies. Moreover, the President asked Congress to drop price controls on new finds of natural gas, to extend investment tax credits on both dry and producing wells and to streamline time...