Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...published is a monthly journal edited by a party hack. The so-called Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, which Stalin set up as a showplace in Siberia, has only 30,000 Jews in a population of 163,000. The Soviet Jew is also handicapped by a strict quota system in universities and higher training schools. Jews may make up only 3% of the total, and while that figure is twice as high as the Jewish percentage of the Soviet population, it is nonetheless impossible for many highly qualified young Jews to receive higher education...
...help implement class balance, a quota will be set for the first time on the number of Radcliffe seniors allowed to live off-campus...
...When the Department of Defense introduced the lottery they didn't know what a lottery meant. They set limits not understanding that for many boards not enough men would be available. Many boards couldn't meet the quota assigned last year," Arthur J. Boyd, a draft counsellor with the American Friends Service Committee, said last night...
...shoes, for example. Next year they must be held to the 1967-69 average, which would amount to a reduction of at least 30% from current levels; in subsequent years, they could grow only 5% annually. The bill also obliges the President to continue holding down oil imports by quota, rather than switch to a less restrictive tariff system...
Tragic Chaplin. Despite the extremity of the situation, much that happens is very everydayish, which actually enhances the play's humanity. The camp's commandant worries about the production quota: if it goes up, he gets a promotion; if it goes down, he faces ignominy or worse. The camp's doctor is busy assembling a harem of pseudo nurses. The camp's foundrymen are lured on to melt bronze by the promise of a bonus. They are cheated out of it. A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic...