Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quota system would fall hardest on West Germany, which has invested more than $1 billion annually since the 1950s on new steel facilities and is Europe's most efficient producer. Says West German Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff: "Our industry must not be penalized for having been in the forefront of modernization." But after weeks of bitter wrangling, the Europeans overcame West German objections and last week agreed to an unprecedented Common Market quota system that will reduce overall production by an average of 13% to 18% for nine months. The West Germans bluntly doubt that the plan will...
Today, the old Maoist disapproval of material incentives has been replaced with its opposite-a recognition that the chance to get richer will make people work harder. Wan cites the way local farm communes no longer have to produce solely according to a state quota system but can decide for themselves what to grow to satisfy local market conditions. Says he: "They are in a better position to know what to plant-and they can become richer." Under the old system, factories produced according to fixed quotas and turned over virtually all of their profits to the state. Now about...
Field hockey's intramural cousin, co-ed football, hasn't been as successful, primarily because both the physical advantages and the experience are on the men's side. Many women complain that they play no real part in a game, and are included merely to meet the female quota required for each match. One anonymous woman from Quincy House recalls a co-ed football game earlier this year: "Of the three women on our team, not once did any of us get to throw the ball, carry the ball, or catch a pass. Not one of us was even thrown...
Honesty, as Diogenes would caution, has never been the strong suit of the human species. Mandatory oath taking in legal proceedings was not invented out of faith in the natural probity of witnesses. Everybody fibs, alas. It is also true that every epoch has its roster of villains, its quota of predatory deceit. Yet today the roster seems far longer than usual, and most observers agree that the quota of duplicity-from artful dodging to elaborate fraud-is growing intolerably large...
...Crimson had not yet filled their quota for giving away goals. They repeated the play in the opening minutes of the second half just to see if the Minutemen could do it again. And they did, on Mark Bonde's unassisted goal...