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Nixon's lobbying activities focus on health and biomedical legislation. This year, she became involved in the medical school funding issues after an amendment was tacked to a House bill at 3 a.m. requiring medical schools receiving government funds to admit a quota of foreign medical students. Cottington says if Congress had realized the unanimous opposition the bill faced from medical schools it would not have passed the amendment. Cottington also notes that Harvard prefers to work with staffers so that the University will never find itself with similar last-minute battles to fight. He cites this...
Resting in the foothills of the Rockies, Boulder, Colo. (pop. 85,000), has been called "the nicest small town in the U.S." It wants to stay that way: last year it put a quota of 450 on the construction of new houses as a means of limiting population growth to 2% a year...
Neither Dileo nor Stepak encountered, as Bakke did, a specific numerical quota reserving places for minorities. But quotas are a burning issue in several reverse-discrimination employment cases, arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights...
...Detroit, a federal judge threw out a voluntary quota system adopted by the Detroit Police Department. Since 1974, in making promotions to the rank of sergeant, officials have skipped over some 200 white officers who had ranked higher than black officers on promotional eligibility lists, primarily on the basis of an exam. At one point, 29 new white sergeants were chosen in strict numerical rank from the top of a 298-man promotional eligibility list; then a matching group of blacks was promoted. Among the new black sergeants, the highest-ranking was 36th; the others ranged as far down...
...obsessed producer of fiction. At one point he set himself a quota of 1,200,000 words a year, 365 days a year (days off had to be made up). He flailed away with two-finger typing until he discovered dictation. Thereafter he kept several secretaries, including three sisters named Walter, frantically busy. He thought of his mysteries as sets of components, so he rigged up a gizmo called a "plot wheel," a device with spokes radiating from the center indicating characters, situations, complications. He spun his wheel until there were points where spokes collided. Presto: another book...