Word: quota
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...Wade, the court's 1973 decision creating a constitutional right to abortion, and he has repeatedly dissented from court decisions banning prayer in schools. Court decisions upholding affirmative action have regularly drawn his scornful dissents. "There is perhaps no device more destructive to the notion of equality than the . . . quota," Rehnquist wrote in United Steelworkers and Kaiser Aluminum vs. Weber in 1979. He adamantly opposes court-ordered busing to remedy school segregation. The Constitution, he wrote in a dissent from a 1979 decision upholding busing in Columbus, does not require local school boards to "follow a policy of integration uber...
...were hard to forge among Justices who faced the divisive task of implementing broad principles that the Warren Court had merely sketched out: first the agreeable axioms of equality, then the vexing arithmetic of affirmative action. So in the landmark Bakke case, five Justices voted to invalidate a racial quota at a California medical school but five (Powell was in both camps) also approved the use of some race-conscious affirmative-action programs. In a string of decisions since then, the shifting coalitions on the court have tilted back and forth on when and how affirmative action can be applied...
Even though the Saudis stayed inside their OPEC quota of 4.3 million bbl. a day, they could not help creating a huge surplus that angered many of their colleagues in OPEC, notably, the Libyans, Algerians and Iranians. Yamani, defending his country's action, has blamed non-OPEC producer Britain for contributing to the glut and has called on London to cut output. Britain stoutly refuses...
Nonetheless, PUSH started picketing WBBM's offices twice a week and urged black viewers to tune out. In December the organization presented a proposed agreement to the station. The document called upon WBBM to hire two male black or Hispanic anchors and establish a 40% employment quota for minorities. It said the station should conduct 35% of its banking with black-owned institutions and assign 25% of its legal business to minority lawyers. WBBM also was asked to donate $10 million to the United Negro College Fund and $1 million to "black organizations designated by PUSH...
Under current city law, each of Cambridge's 13 neighborhoods are limited to five shelters for every 5000 residents. Three neighborhoods are forbidden to contain any community residences since they have fewer than 5000 residents, while four others are are at their quota. Neighborhood 6, where Shelter Inc. is trying to build its shelter, is already above its limit of two shelters...