Word: quota
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...report submitted to the city council last week, City Manager Robert W. Healy called the quota requirement illegal and suggested that the city instead adopt voluntary employment guidelines...
...councilors were concerned that the city currently has no agency to oversee the employment plan. There is no funding budgeted for the program, and there is no certainty that a hiring quota is legally enforceable...
...fight mobs go, the audience Friday night was enthusiastic but unmemorable. The customary quota of celebrities was not met, although Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett had ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...firewoman before standards are once again based on job requirements rather than on the applicant's potential? If your life or mine was in danger, I daresay we would desire the best physically equipped person available, not someone who was hired by virtue of a quota system. Paul F. Lupica East Windsor...
Eventually Rodriguez spoke out in favor of the Bakke decision, which upheld a white applicant's complaint against a minority admissions quota at the University of California medical school at Davis. At a time when the Reagan Administration is cutting back funds for bilingual education and backing away from affirmative action, his views take on political significance. He has been quoted and courted by an array of right-wing politicians "for whom," he says, "I would never vote," and called a "brown Uncle Tom" by minority groups. Commenting on Hunger of Memory, Oral Historian Studs Terkel, a supporter...