Word: quota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Campos acknowledges the fear thatstudent groups will set up a quota system fortheir membership, he says he would prefer toremain idealistic...
...bedeviled OPEC?s attempts to reverse the trend by cutting production. ?Venezuela has been notorious for cheating,? says Baumohl. ?Although in the new agreement they?re going to cut back production by 200,000 barrels a day, they were, in fact, producing 700,000 barrels more than their OPEC quota allowed,? says Baumohl...
...justice), tipping those scales ever so slightly in favor of "underrepresented minorities." They told us affirmative action was a temporary solution, implemented to help achieve social equality, until society could achieve equality itself. They told us in no uncertain terms that affirmative action was not--was not--preferences or quota for unqualified applicants...
...anticipate that Harvard will be criticized for "quota-filling" and violating "traditional" norms of morality in making this choice. We reject both of these objections as groundless. As a College, we are fortunate that diversity and qualification are wedded in the same choice. We congratulate the University for finding the best candidates for the job regardless of sexual orientation. Hopefully the quality of Eck and Austin as scholars and community leaders will demonstrate to skeptics within the University and to national observers that sexual orientation is irrelevant to job performance...
Second, be sure to delete files from your home directory every so often so as not to go over your disk quota...