Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACLU attorneys said that the Selective Service has maintained individual state induction quotas. Which were abolished by the new Selective Service Act which President Nixon signed on September 28. The new law provides for a uniform national call which would draft all eligible men until a nationwide quota...
...Well, of course, we disagree with him." Kenneth J. Coffey, director of communications for the Selective Service System, said. He said that 9865 of the 10,000 men scheduled for induction had already been drafted, and that the quota would be exceeded by tonight. Coffey also denied that state quotas were being imposed in violation of the new law. He said that the uniform national call won't go into effect for about a week...
...became the last Ivy League school to drop its all-male tradition, trustees voted to admit coeds at a 4-to-l ratio of men to women, a standard similar to that followed by Yale and Princeton. Rather than being delighted with the change, many coeds argue that the quota system is demeaning and condemns them to second-class status on campus. Female academics favored proposed amendments to federal college-aid bills that would have required all coed schools to do away with quotas entirely within seven years. The amendment was defeated early last month after vigorous lobbying by many...
Under PR, voters vote for candidates in order of preference. A quota is determined for election and the ballots of candidates exceeding the quota are parcelled out to the second choice on each ballot...
...suit filed by Russell. William Walsh, and incumbent Thomas Coates maintains that the method of redistribution violates a state law which specifies that every first choice vote for a candidate after he reaches quota go to the number two choice...