Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resulted in more blacks coming in, more Mexican Americans, more women, more young people, and I think some Jewish voters may have seen that as a kind of threat to their position within the councils of the Democratic Party. They may have seen in that the possibility of quotas in Government itself that would be a threat to talented Jews who feel positions in the Government ought to be on the basis of merit, not on the basis of any kind of quota system...
While threatened, many Jews no longer feel they are protected by the political left, represented by McGovern. On the contrary, the Democratic nominee was a chief instigator of the quota system at the Miami convention. Making up only 3% of the American population, Jews are represented beyond their national percentage in the schools and the civil service, areas where quotas are sometimes now being vigorously applied. If blacks and other groups are given jobs on the basis of their weight in the population rather than making it on merit, it is the Jews who stand to lose the most. Historically...
...situation that is ultimately limited to diplomatic damage. Moscow has been reduced to two seemingly reliable Arab allies, Syria and Iraq. But neither is as centrally important in the Arab world as Egypt. Some Middle East observers suspected that the Kremlin might undertake heavy-handed revenge by increasing the quota of Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel or by renewing diplomatic relations with the Israelis, which were broken off in 1967. There is not much else the Russians could do to punish Sadat. There is no sense in attempting to topple him, since Sadat has already imprisoned and displaced former Vice...
...thrown off the floor; he never came to Miami. The unseating of Daley raised again a fundamental question about the democracy of the party's new guidelines. At what point does the laudable idea of opening the party to women and minorities turn into a rigid and potentially tyrannical quota system? If a delegate slate, even one contrived by an old-line party boss, wins a majority...
...longtime observers now sense that his tune could change quickly-if Moscow were to order it and if Washington were to come across with an agreement to, say, give up the Navy's obsolete base at Guantànamo and invite Cuba back into the lucrative U.S. sugar quota system...