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...noted that some departments--such as History--have such an overweighted tutorial student-to-faculty ratio that the proposal would require them to drastically revamp faculty commitments, while the ratios in others--such as Psychology and Social Relations--are close to the proposed quota right...
...hunt for origins had been building for a decade. Leery of a homogeneity that could suffocate the individual, wary of quota systems that specified "Black, Hispanic, Other," Americans began to perceive themselves beyond the melting pot. They met their fears with a fever of ethnicity and a quest for forgotten countries and families...
Tariffs and Quotas. The ITC wants a quota of 265 million pairs-equal to 1974 imports-on the number of shoes that can come in under the present 10% tariff, and quadrupling the tariff to 40% on any additional imports. It would raise tariffs on color TVs from 5% now to 25% for the next two years, then drop them back to 20% for an additional two years. The commission further would cut the quota on sugar, now 7 million tons, to a maximum of 4.4 million tons a year. Labor leaders, businessmen and politicians from regions hurt by imports...
Under the new law, long urged by the fishing industry and signed last year by President Ford (TIME, April 5), eight regional councils, made up of fishermen and private citizens, set quotas for fish in their areas. U.S. fishermen are allowed to net as much of each quota as they are equipped to take; foreign vessels are being licensed by the State Department to catch the remainder. In practice, this means that foreigners will be prohibited from taking species that are popular with Americans but will still be able to take limited amounts of fish like hake, which is popular...
...this year, the California Supreme Court ruled that the school's practice of reserving 16 out of 100 places in each year's entering class for minority students is unconstitutional and discriminates against students who may be more qualified than the 16 minority students who are admitted under the quota...