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There is the expected quota of mock anthropology and imaginary biology; the most eccentric and striking example of that genre being a pair of crude effigies of horses, made from sticks, chicken wire and mud by the California artist Deborah Butterfield. There is also a hilarious piece of funkiness by a Texas sculptor, James Surls, representing a tornado chewing through the roof of a church; Surls' debt to that master of buckeye surrealism, H.C. Westermann, is ob vious enough, but the image has a wobbly comic-strip blatancy about it that carries conviction...
...fighting the concept that if a black enters a corporation that is using some kind of quota system, then he is incompetent," James F. Ferguson, Director of Ferguson Bryan Associates, said...
...transferred directly from the ship to an airport for flights to their new homes. The U.S., which has already admitted 150,000 refugees from Indochina, seeks a different solution. To help the Hai Hong homeless, the U.S. Attorney General approved an increase of 2,500 above the annual refugee quota of 25,000 for the year ending next May 1. But the Carter Administration wants to take the refugees at the head of the queue already in Malaysia, and have the Hai Hong escapees take their places in the camps...
...point, Schreiber threatened to break a recruiter's arm if he failed to meet his quota. Schreiber told the committee that the threat was not serious. Said he: "We're in the Marine Corps. That's the way we speak. We're not graduates of the College of the Immaculate Conception." With considerable pride, Schreiber reported that he managed to raise his staffs performance from 59% of its quota to 100% after he took charge in 1977. His reward: headquarters increased his quota by 13 percentage points...
Making matters worse, unsympathetic officials often refuse to turn over lists of high school seniors to recruiters, and parents frequently become incensed and abusive when recruiters phone to talk to prospective enlistees. So the pressure on recruiters to fill this year's Marine Corps quota of 39,300 enlistments will remain intense. Says Schreiber: "My quota for every recruiter was as many as he could possibly enlist." On the double...