Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dominican exodus has grown along with the country's economic troubles. A huge foreign debt, high inflation and a 30% unemployment rate make it nearly impossible for people to make a living at home. Cutbacks in the U.S. sugar quota last year crippled the chief export industry and displaced thousands of agricultural workers. The refugee flight serves as an escape valve for social discontent, as well as a source of foreign earnings: the emigrants send home an estimated $280 million each year. Concedes Andres Moreta Damiron, the Dominican consul in San Juan: "Our government needs this injection of money...
...quota problem is not confined to colleges. At San Francisco's ultracompetitive Lowell High, Chinese Americans constitute 45% of the student body. But no city school may have more than 45% of its students from any ethnic group, a rule originally set by the courts to prevent de facto segregation of blacks and Hispanics. As a result, Lowell is having to turn away qualified Chinese-American students, a task that School Principal Alan Fibish describes as "odious...
...Bakke decision on university admissions, at the time not fully backed by any other Justice, influenced what came to be the court's general approach in employment as well as education: race-conscious goals are permissible so long as they do not become permanent, rigid quota systems. In the term just concluded, Powell cast the swing vote in upholding a promotion plan for black Alabama state troopers. But the Reagan Administration has been campaigning to abolish numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women, and Powell could be replaced by a Justice who agrees with the Administration position...
...moved to New York City in 1983 as TIME's East regional bureau chief. In 1985 he became a deputy chief of correspondents. "Journalists are individualists, and the thoughtful journalism that TIME depends on can't be ordered up as if it were a sales goal or a factory quota," says Stacks. "My job is to foster their curiosity, independence and imagination...
...penned by Rogers and Clarke, the comically dreadful songwriting team played by Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar. The two pictures share similarities besides their North African setting: agreeably low-keyed playing by their stars, a plot that involves them dangerously in local politics, and about the same quota of gags. There is one important difference: Ishtar cost roughly 40 times as much as Road to Morocco. Laughter can choke on such wretched excess...