Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually Rodriguez spoke out in favor of the Bakke decision, which upheld a white applicant's complaint against a minority admissions quota at the University of California medical school at Davis. At a time when the Reagan Administration is cutting back funds for bilingual education and backing away from affirmative action, his views take on political significance. He has been quoted and courted by an array of right-wing politicians "for whom," he says, "I would never vote," and called a "brown Uncle Tom" by minority groups. Commenting on Hunger of Memory, Oral Historian Studs Terkel, a supporter...
...correct the imbalance, the Review first voted to adopt a rigid quota system. Three editors quit, and dissension among the rest was so great that two weeks later, by a 44-36 vote, the journal decided merely to allow race and sex to be considered in choosing up to eight of the 48 editors. That too drew heavy fire, and the Review put the matter on hold for nearly a year. Last month the editors narrowly approved the mildest plan yet. Starting this spring, minority applicants may submit statements describing "economic, societal, or educational obstacles that have been overcome...
...hubris to advance a world view, to rewrite the Bible in his Joseph novels, to devise the great metaphor of Europe as a sanatorium full of the walking wounded in The Magic Mountain. Was Thomas Mann ever unsure of himself, writing his quota of pages day after day in the comfort of a Germany he was later to renounce for exile in California? Was he ever young...
...bill proposed in the House--approved already in a similar version by the Senate--would "threaten Harvard's basic research programs," Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations, said yesterday, adding that the bill's quota would diminish the quality of the total national research effort...
Since last spring, Coddington and other members of the academic community have discussed with legislators eliminating the basic research quota, part of the bill which seeks to provide funds for small businesses in all forms of research...