Word: quota
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Despite its pious homilies on the dangers of protectionism, the U.S. is one of the offenders. The Reagan Administration has forced Japan to accept a "voluntary" three-year quota on car exports and has limited steel imports from Western Europe. Some members of Congress, encouraged by organized labor, hope to go even further. A bill requiring a large percentage of American-made parts in imported cars has 220 co-sponsors in the House and the endorsement of Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and John Glenn...
...sponsoring the arms buildup, Brezhnev turned out to be a true Stakhanovite: he overfulfilled his quota. When he died last week, he left to Yuri Andropov a military machine that is at least as powerful as the U.S.'s in some respects, and more powerful in others. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S. now possess approximately the same number of ballistic missile warheads-more than 7,000. These warheads are the fastest, most accurate and destructive long-range weapons in the two sides' arsenals of last resort. In Soviet eyes, they symbolize the U.S.S.R.'s attainment of equality...
Below the surface calm is a tinge of feminist anger. She doubts that many TV news directors today would dare tell a young woman what her first boss told her: the station already had its quota of one woman reporter. But it rankles that many people confuse her with her NBC colleague Jessica Savitch, with CBS's Stahl and Diane Sawyer and with ABC'S Catherine Mackin, apparently because all are blond. Indeed, President Reagan once addressed Stahl as "Judy" at a press conference. Says Woodruff: "I do not notice many people confusing Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw...
...advisory opinion by City Solicitor Russell B. Higley, submitted last week along with the city manager's report, states that a mandatory hiring quota may not be legal...
...Supreme Judicial Court has declared unconstitutional a hiring quota established by the city of Boston for any city-funded construction jobs. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of that decision this fall...