Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business backlash stings Japan in many ways. The U.S. is negotiating tighter quotas on Japanese steel and has just agreed on a quota for stainless-steel flatware. Many businessmen want the Government to go much further. Last year protectionists raced through the House a bill authorizing quotas on any foreign product that won as much as 15% of a U.S. market. The chief target: Japan. The bill died in a Senate adjournment rush, but the import debate has resurfaced this year in a way that could poison U.S.-Japanese political relations...
According to the report, these guide lines, which would fluctuate as the percentage of women with Harvard Ph.D.'s changes, do not aim at a "quota system." The report says, "We regard it as perfectly compatible with our guidelines that in every particular case excellence and not sex (or race or age) should be the only criterion for academic employment...
...makes no formal recommendations concerning undergraduate women, it does state the view "that women should be admitted for undergraduate study, as they are admitted to the Graduate School, in tree and open competition, and with no institutional arrangements like these presently in force-which amount in effect to a quota system...
...called Transparent Things. The new work, he explained to the New York Times, is being composed on his usual "scrambled index cards, which I gradually fill in and sort out, using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils." Nabokov described his success at beating the biblical quota of 70 years as "a feat of lucky endurance, of paradoxically detached will power, of good work and good wine, of healthy concentration on a rare bug or a rhythmic phrase. Another thing that might have been of some help is the fact that I am subject to the embarrassing qualms...
Higher Prices Ahead. For some time, letting in more oil from Canada and elsewhere should limit increases in energy costs. Nixon's import-quota task force estimated that the present controls cost consumers $5 billion a year that could be saved by buying more low-priced foreign petroleum...