Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like so many other troubled, dislocated young Americans, Taylor may at first seem self-indulgent in his woe. What he has endured and sings about, with much restraint and dignity, are mainly "head" problems, those pains that a lavish quota of middle-class advantages?plenty of money, a loving family, good schools, health, charm and talent?do not seem to prevent, and may in fact exacerbate. Drugs, underachievement, the failure of will, alienation, the doorway to suicide, the struggle back to life?James Taylor has been there himself...
...wants to be first. By trickery, by cajolery, by avarice, by lechery, by pure New Yorky pushing and shoving, each, in turn, supplants the other at the head of the line. It is rather like a stand-up game of musical chairs, and though it has a goodly quota of laughs, it goes on too long for what...
...writes, had been taught to believe in dramatic solutions. Drenched in Maoist doctrine since birth, they had no use for original thought. "All we cared about was implementation and results." Getting results could just as easily mean dealing with counter-revolutionaries as with raising the pig-fat production quota. In fact, the "struggle" technique was the same for both-a sort of continuing pep rally, or ideological mass rape, during which all opposition is drowned in slogans, charges and insults...
Gierek promised that the workers would be paid for their strike days "if you fulfill your quota." His most popular promise was to draw a clearer line between party and state functions, thus enabling more nonparty members to hold high government and industrial posts. In a major concession, the government announced that a new incentive system that had helped spark the riots will be postponed and possibly revised...
Peterson said there is no particular "docket," or area of the country, whose quota of admissions has been reduced. Rather, he said, it is "the doughnuts around the big cities" which are not as successful with the Harvard Admissions Committee as they used...