Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leon fails, though, because the relationship between him and the residents is a two-way street. Until they also love Leon, his efforts disappear. Because of a lack of love for the majority, many in power today are able to argue against quota-based affirmative action. If institutions set a specific level of minority acceptance in their admissions policy, the reasoning goes, these students might feel stigmatized and separated from the others...
...years, starting either at age 18 or upon graduation from high school. The number to be drafted each year would depend on the needs of the armed forces. At present those needs total 350,000 per year. While enlistments currently fulfill about 99% of the Army's quota, a draft would provide it with a more representative cross-section. The pool of males available in that age group is 2.1 million. Women would be exempt...
...quota system the Review adopted two weeks ago in an attempt to insure increased representation of minorities and women met with stiff opposition from some Review editors...
...Actually, we'll have a quota of three Yales to every Harvard in this administration," one senior Reagan aide--a former Eli--joked a few weeks ago. So far, that doesn't seem to be the case...
...today," he says. "By designing a production process that minimizes human participation, you freeze out the worker's control and you freeze out his initiative. We often overlook the impact of robots on the jobs that remain. Today, if a worker assembling components has a daily quota of 100 units to fill, he can, for example, work flat out and assemble 60 in the first half of a shift, leaving only 40 for a relatively unpressured second half. But when he is slotted between centrally programmed robots that dictate the pace, he becomes a mere cog in the machine...