Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trade Commission decided that shoe imports were causing "serious injury" to the domestic industry. The I.T.C. in June ruled, 4 to 1, that the Government should limit imports of nonrubber shoes valued at more than $2.50 to 474 million pairs for the first two years of a five-year quota plan. Such a program would have stepped on plenty of toes. Footwear prices would probably have risen by as much as 15% in the first year. While protectionist measures may save some jobs, consumers almost always suffer because the limit on supplies drives up prices. The Federal Reserve Bank...
...more than 300 cities. He speaks of Reagan's presidency as , nothing less than God-ordained ("the Heavenly Father looked down and saw our plight") and says a second Carter Administration "might have plunged us into another French Revolution, only this time on American soil." LaHaye advocates a quota of 25% of federal jobs for Christian conservatives and, at the same time, insists that "no humanist is qualified to hold any governmental office...
Echoing the sentiments of residents, the three zoning board members opposing the variance said Central Square, with six shelters in a population of 13,500, has already exceeded its legally established quota for such buildings...
...willingly embraced the world's wretched refused? Whether European immigrants earlier in this century or more recently political refugees from Central America, Cambridge has consistently offered sanctuary to society's neediest. Isn't this city willing to help the next generation of society's untouchables? Or will some pernicious quota-setting laws continue to regulate the homeless refugees living in our midst...
...each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers . . ." It was in memory of Kennedy's urging that the U.S. in 1965 abandoned the quota system that for nearly half a century had preserved the overwhelmingly European character of the nation. The new law invited the largest wave of immigration since the turn of the century, only this time the newcomers have arrived not from the Old World but from the Third World, especially Asia...