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Some detractors regard Carter's ambition as exceeding even the generous quota to be expected of any presidential candidate. In Carter's case, there is an almost total humorlessness and an implacable quality to the pursuit of all his goals. Says a Georgia government official who knows him well: "He's got rock-hard, iron-hard confidence. He's like twisted steel cable inside." Trying to reassure an audience in Green Bay, Wis., that he was not dangerously ambitious, Carter pointed out that he had not always wanted to be President. Said he, in all seriousness: "When...
...effort to maintain a quota of female concentrators, the concentration may fill spots vacated by already admitted women only with other women, Robert L. Amdur said...
History and Lit, another selective concentration, does not use a waiting list or a sex quota because it admits students three times during the academic year, James D. Wilkinson, the concentration's head tutor, said last week...
This method, passed by CHUL last year, requires that Collier determine a "pain factor" for each House based primarily on the average amount of room space available in each House. After setting the relative discomfort caused by crowding in each House, Collier is then to set the quota of students assigned to each House in order to equalize crowding in all Houses...
...they could against a culture that had a stranglehold on the Jewish population in general-and a double one on Jewish Women. Over and over again, the theme that emerges from these autobiographies is the struggle for education-a struggle against the anti-Semitic government that enforced a rigid quota system to limit Jewish attendance at state schools, and a struggle against the Jewish religion itself, which set up learning as the highest good and then decreed that is was the preserve of Jewish men only...