Word: quota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accept a step-by-step suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, with progress dependent on compliance -- a suspend-comply-lift scenario keyed to the gradual implementation of the Bosnia peace plan. In the first phase, strategic materials would stay on the sanctions list, with the exception of an annual quota of allowed oil imports. The time frame for review remains under discussion, with Milosevic insisting on at least a year between compliance assessments. Whatever the interval, the Bildt concepts are said to insist that sanctions will be reimposed should Belgrade evade its commitments; a critical problem here is who decides...
...based preferences in federal programs while eliminating abuses and inequities. Addressing an audience at the National Archives, Clinton said: "We should have a simple slogan: mend it, but don't end it." Making a start, the President directed federal departments to end or revamp any program that "creates a quota, creates preferences for unqualified individuals, creates reverse discrimination or continues even after its equal opportunity purposes have been achieved." Though popular Republican attacks on quotas clearly forced the action,TIME's James Carneysays the White House decided the President could make the best of a no-win situation by holding...
...rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely the kind of racial preference he goes to such lengths to excoriate. And as long as he is on the court, no other black need apply: Thomas fills a quota...
Also proposed are a new study of managerialappointments; the setting-aside of a quota of cityconstruction for minority-owned firms, and anintern program for Cambridge Rindge and LatinSchool students to work in municipal departments...
Black demonstrations took place throughout the University in 1969-70. In December, 91 students from the Organization for Black Unity, a University-wide umbrella organization for Black students, occupied the Faculty Club and University Hall. They demanded equal pay for workers, and a 20 percent quota for minority construction workers...