Word: quota
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...child of the South, she worked her way up through the Byzantine white establishment by dint of stoic application and cheerful self-denial. Her city, which exists either in the near future or in the recent past, still refers to black people as coloreds and maintains a subtle quota system whose goal is not human equality but the appearance of social justice. The elevator bosses take their leisure at riotous banquets where the entertainment consists of humiliating minstrel shows. The civil rights movement, in Whitehead's parallel universe, either never happened or has been reversed. Either way the effect...
...virtually every meeting this term, the council has expelled several members for exceeding their quota of five absences per semester...
Indeed, I argued vigorously to all concerned that the admissions practice was unconstitutional because it was so numbers-driven and mechanical that is impermissibly resembled a quota. I viewed the School Committee's policy as a politically driven compromise, intended to preserve racial diversity while clinging as possible to the use of a questionable standardized test that exacerbates unequal opportunity to learn in the Boston Public School system. The compromise was ill advised. So is the School Committee's decision to appeal to the Supreme court. Their policy was and is a loser. They should go back to the drawing...
Watson enrolled in IBM sales school after college and hated that as well. He devoted more time to indulging his passions for flying airplanes by day and partying by night than to calling on clients. Even so, Watson filled his entire sales quota for 1940 on the first day of that year--but only because the company had thrown the boss's son a big account to make him look good...
McLaughlin successfully argued that this"quota" denied equal opportunity to all citizens...