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...quota is not met, housing officials have informally discussed the idea of using the space to lodge overflow students from the more crowded residential Houses, as has been done in the past...
Ronald Reagan has tried to stage a countermarch. At his first press conference after he took office in 1981, Reagan said that some affirmative action programs had been "distorted" into quota systems. "I'm old enough to remember," he said, "when quotas existed in the U.S. for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again." Since then, his Justice Department has aggressively attacked the use of racial preference in hiring and promotion. William Bradford Reynolds, the outspoken chief of the Justice Department's civil rights division, insists that affirmative action has done more harm...
...last October by cutting the price of its North Sea crude by $1.50 per bbl., to $28.50. Britain quickly followed Norway, which inspired OPEC member Nigeria to undercut both competitors and sell its oil for $28. OPEC tried to brake the price slide in October by reducing the output quota for its members from 17.5 million bbl. a day to 16 million in hopes that lower supply would mean higher prices. At the time, the group predicted confidently that as soon as oil refiners began building their stockpiles for winter, the global glut would evaporate. But aside from January...
...nation's newest oppressed class: "Given a choice, men, would you rather be having sex with your wife or out bowling with your buddies?" Royko continued with a more pointed observation: "Nobody ever asks us about our needs, our frustrations . . . It's always, 'Madam, do you have your quota of orgasms?' " One putative expert on that subject, Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown, had her own reaction to the hubbub. Hurried, "lackluster" sex is rotten for everybody, she concluded, while good sex is "pretty terrific"-- second only, in her experienced opinion, to good food...
...Spanish. No, he decides, he can no longer write; the whole thing is hopeless. The novella peters out as messily as could be wished, without even a period to nail down its last sentence: "... maybe we'll go to the bottom of the page get my daily quota done come on, kid, you can do three more lousy lines...