Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting the concept that if a black enters a corporation that is using some kind of quota system, then he is incompetent," James F. Ferguson, Director of Ferguson Bryan Associates, said...
...transferred directly from the ship to an airport for flights to their new homes. The U.S., which has already admitted 150,000 refugees from Indochina, seeks a different solution. To help the Hai Hong homeless, the U.S. Attorney General approved an increase of 2,500 above the annual refugee quota of 25,000 for the year ending next May 1. But the Carter Administration wants to take the refugees at the head of the queue already in Malaysia, and have the Hai Hong escapees take their places in the camps...
...point, Schreiber threatened to break a recruiter's arm if he failed to meet his quota. Schreiber told the committee that the threat was not serious. Said he: "We're in the Marine Corps. That's the way we speak. We're not graduates of the College of the Immaculate Conception." With considerable pride, Schreiber reported that he managed to raise his staffs performance from 59% of its quota to 100% after he took charge in 1977. His reward: headquarters increased his quota by 13 percentage points...
Making matters worse, unsympathetic officials often refuse to turn over lists of high school seniors to recruiters, and parents frequently become incensed and abusive when recruiters phone to talk to prospective enlistees. So the pressure on recruiters to fill this year's Marine Corps quota of 39,300 enlistments will remain intense. Says Schreiber: "My quota for every recruiter was as many as he could possibly enlist." On the double...
...pulled out a letter and said, "We are only here for this reason." The letter, Yardley deduced, was from one of the big trading companies, which had ordered his smaller firm to put in an appearance at the display in order to meet the promised quota of contacts...