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...France on the road to financial reform after 50 years of inflation and deterioration of the franc; in Paris. A firm advocate of the gold standard as an economic foundation for all Western countries, Rueff in 1958 carried out a drastic reduction in borrowing, the removal of nearly all quota restrictions for international trade and most significantly, the creation of a new franc (worth 100 old francs), which helped restore France's balance of trade and built up its gold reserves...
...slightly disreputable friends. Even by theatrical proxy, there is a certain insidious charm and exoticism in experiencing, through staged illusion, the magic of venturing into forbidden places and untoward happenings that might rarely have been accessible, or perhaps acceptable, in ordinary life. Despite its concupiscent locale and a generous quota of oft-deleted words, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a font of fun and friendliness...
...slightest bit interested in Allan Bakke's personal fate. But because he sued the University of California, claiming he suffered "reverse discrimination" at the hands of the U.C. Davis admissions team, Bakke put himself in the center of an assault on the constitutionality of racial and ethnic quota systems, and on the very concept of affirmative action...
...Bakke case. "Bakke is not only affecting the schools, it is affecting us," he says. "Ours is a job that the average person could do without a high school diploma or college degree, and still make a decent wage. Right now, minority hiring in construction is based solely on quota systems. If the Court makes quotas illegal, then we lose about the only thing we have going for us a people that hasn't had the opportunity to get good education...
...past, Ellis Island. The quota for Rumanian immigrants was minuscule, and Steinberg was over the limit. While a relative in New York tried at short notice to persuade The New Yorker to sponsor him in the U.S., Steinberg spent a sweltering Fourth of July on Ellis Island and was deported to Santo Domingo on a cargo boat...