Word: quota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music, not turning it on. When Renton's going into withdrawal, you know from the muted, beta-wave techno beat that it'll be a typical, painless cold turkey exercise in fantasy: he'll be fine, whatever the psychedelic hallucinations. It's as if the filmmakers had some quota to fill for the movie's soundtrack album...
...President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, tried unsuccessfully in 1922 to impose a quota on Jewish admissions...
...truly enrich Harvard, the spots which we tenuously reserve in a "non-quota" manner for minority students should be given to those who really do need the "appropriate consideration." There are exceptions we should be making more of. Instead of giving the benefit of the doubt to under-represented minorities, a lower GPA can be accepted for a student who worked 15 hours a week to help her parents maintain the family; for a Vietnamese refugee with a lower verbal SAT score; for a student from rural West Virginia (where there are no science research institutions to do a junior...
...There is no hidden racism in me," said Dornan, who opposes quota-oriented affirmative action but supports some other forms...
...bill, which awaits consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would slash the annual employment-visa quota from 140,000 workers to 90,000 within a year of its passage. Some companies that hire immigrants would have to pay a fee of $10,000-or 10% of each worker's salary, whichever is higher--for worker training. Simpson also wants to require some new arrivals to be proficient in business English, and would limit the stay of foreigners transferred to the U.S. from a company's overseas branches to three years--vs. a five-to-seven-year limit today. To increase...