Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They cannot be avoided much longer. President Nixon has already suspended oil quotas on light heating fuel until April. After that? There is no shortage of suggestions. Environmentalists urge dropping the quotas entirely, which means, ironically, that they might have to modify their opposition to both supertankers and new refineries. The oil industry generally recommends that the quotas be kept and domestic production boosted, mainly by hiking oil prices and encouraging more exploration. Many key Congressmen are beginning to favor a new, flexible quota system to allow increased imports when necessary; in addition, Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson last week...
...fact, Farr rarely lacked company, despite the nominal quota on visitors of six a week. There is no limit on journalistic interviews or conferences with lawyers, and since most of Farr's friends are newsmen or attorneys, he was frequently able to leave his small room and go to the visitors' area. Friends were even able to bring him mail that had been delivered to his home, a convenience denied most prisoners. An arrangement with the public library supplied him with as many books as he wanted, and again unlike other inmates, he was allowed to receive...
...Stalinism as well as Fascism. After World War II, he joined in founding the anti-Communist American Committee for Cultural Freedom, but also in denouncing Senator Joseph McCarthy. More conservative in recent years, he has been an outspoken critic of student radicals ("gravediggers of academic freedom") and of any quota system in academic appointments ("a manifestation of racism"). Says he: "I've always been out of step, a premature Marxist, a premature anti-Communist." His students best remember him as a teacher who, as one of them put it, "pounds, pounds, pounds away at us." Says another: "Sure...
...student's own preference and a diversity quota also determine House placement. The diversity quota attempts to balance each House according to academic grouping area of concentration, secondary school background and male female ratio...
DISCRIMINATION is one of the major thrusts behind the call for sex-blind admissions. Most students at Yale-feel that it is up to the administration to justify the present discriminatory quota policy. The burden is on the administration, the students claim, to explain why women are treated differently when it comes to the human intellect...