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...truly in favor of "equality of rights not to be denied by government on the basis of sex," why is it that I, a highly educated white male and disabled veteran, cannot get a job, even with the Federal Government, because of female pressure groups and their support of quota systems...
However, the most controversial proposal made in this section of the report--that the current Faculty legislation setting a quota for senior faculty participation in department tutorials be rescinded--received only indirect approval...
...immigration law provides an annual quota of 170,000 for the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 for the Western. Another 110,000-primarily relatives-are permitted to enter under special provisions. In the Eastern Hemisphere, each nation has a quota, and immigrants are accepted largely on the basis of their skills and family ties to U.S. citizens. There are no national quotas in the Western Hemisphere; immigrants are accepted on the basis of first come, first served...
...that 265.6 million pairs of shoes-the 1974 level of imports-be permitted to enter the U.S. at the current 10% tariff. The duty would be quadrupled to 40% for additional footwear; for color-TV sets, it would be quintupled to 25%; and the annual 7 million-ton sugar quota for imports would be cut by more than one-third. The ITC estimates that if its tariff is adopted for shoes, 5,100 jobs will be saved and an equal number will be created as U.S. firms pick up some of the foreign business...
...city of Muzaffarnagar, 70 miles north of Delhi, vasectomy camps handled between 1,200 and 1,800 cases a day. Each operation took five to ten minutes, and there was often no follow-up when the patient suffered postoperative bleeding, infection or even tetanus. The state quota for Uttar Pradesh had been set at 400,000, but the chief minister raised it to 1.5 million, presumably to please Sanjay. Some 700,000 operations were actually performed, a phenomenal increase over the previous year's total of 129,000. Villagers told bitter jokes against Mrs. Gandhi, one of them based...