Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City Councilor David Sullivan, chairman of the council's employment subcommittee, said this weekend that he is not satisfied with the city manager's new proposal. Sullivan said he will continue to press for a mandatory hiring quota...
...report submitted to the city council last week, City Manager Robert W. Healy called the quota requirement illegal and suggested that the city instead adopt voluntary employment guidelines...
...councilors were concerned that the city currently has no agency to oversee the employment plan. There is no funding budgeted for the program, and there is no certainty that a hiring quota is legally enforceable...
...fight mobs go, the audience Friday night was enthusiastic but unmemorable. The customary quota of celebrities was not met, although Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett had ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...firewoman before standards are once again based on job requirements rather than on the applicant's potential? If your life or mine was in danger, I daresay we would desire the best physically equipped person available, not someone who was hired by virtue of a quota system. Paul F. Lupica East Windsor...