Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 90 minutes in Yamani's suite, which had a sweeping view of Lake Geneva. Since OPEC members were unwilling to make long-term promises to limit their oil production, Aqazadeh reasoned, Why not try an interim measure? He suggested a temporary return to the group's 1984 quota of some 16 million...
...both Greenpeace's and the NMFS's kill estimates, claiming that Fisheries Service observers, who are assigned to only some of the 29 boats in the fleet, have incorrectly extrapolated their data. The fishermen are also irked by the fact that the foreign tuna fleet, which has no legal quota, will most certainly ignore any forthcoming NMFS restrictions. These ships, say the fishermen, may have already killed more than 20,000 dolphins in 1986. On only one point is there agreement: observers must be placed on all U.S. tuna ships as soon as possible to establish a true count...
Seven years ago, the Anchorage Daily News had surely endured its quota of lean seasons. Founded on a meager stake in 1946, the feisty, liberal-leaning paper had lagged far behind Anchorage's conservative afternoon Times, described on its masthead as "Alaska's Largest Newspaper." After being taken over in 1967 by former Chicago Daily News Editor Larry Fanning and his wife Kay, the Anchorage News turned out some spirited journalism but continued to decline. "In 1976," recalls Kay Fanning, "we won a Pulitzer Prize and went publicly broke...
...based on the percentage of nonwhites in the local labor pool. A narrow majority of five Justices upheld the lower court's order. Another Justice, Byron White, agreed that while in principle judges have the power to set hiring goals, in this case the 29% target was an impermissible quota...
...thought from the way I played and what I saw of the people finishing above me, I could have placed first," Tsang said. "I got the feeling that they had a quota system for the finals, regarding Americans. I expected the Russians to get the top prizes, they always...