Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Want to buy some air pollution? In smoggy Los Angeles and other U.S. urban areas, pollution brokers match companies in the market for a chunk of pollutable air with businesses that are operating below their pollution quota...
...million market in ERCs among polluters trying to expand. Such firms buy ERCs, at $3,000 to $10,000 per allowable ton of waste, from companies that have already reduced pollution. The feds say the practice improves the air, because every ERC trade reduces the subsequent waste quota...
...symbolic blockade up around the members. They'll learn to see things the right way. In any case, there won't be a next time because we have Dean Spence in our symbolic pocket, so to speak. Next time we'll just remind him that the controversial speech quota has been filled, and the speech will be cancelled...
...Quotas. The Supreme Court last year upheld a rigid court-imposed numerical quota for the employment of blacks and Hispanics in a case where a sheet-metal union's resistance to integration had been marked by "foot-dragging egregious noncompliance." Quota plans, however, remain legally questionable in most cases...
...addition, the College's quota system may have affected which houses went random. The quotas require that the ratio of sophomore men to women be between 1:1 and 2:1. If a house had reached its quota for male or female sophomores, the computer would only accept members of the opposite...