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Mansfield suggests that action should come in the form of an enforced "grade quota, or semi-curve," similar to the one he and Michael Walzer, professor of Government, have used in "promoting some uniformity between sections" in Government...
...Committee on Legal Education, a subcommittee of the faculty, will propose a strict quota system. They will urge that five or six students be selected from each section, based upon their grade-point averages...
...Ullman, has agreed to an initial increase in federal taxes on gasoline by 3? to 7?; as much as 20? more could be added in April 1977 if gas consumption climbs 3% or more above the 1973 level. The committee is still struggling to find agreement on import-quota levels, a windfall-profits tax for the oil industry and a levy on industrial petroleum use. Last week, to Ullman's discomfort, the committee voted down several proposals to place stiff taxes on the sale of gas-guzzling cars. The House commerce subcommittee has been even more bogged down. Among...
...time when Harvard and the Strauch report have been adamant in rejecting quotas as a tool for upping the number of women here, the AHA request essentially boils down to one for maintaining a quota for men and filling out as many additional places as possible with women...
...critic for the New York Herald Tribune who was fired for calling almost every other picture he reviewed either "great" or "one of the most important documents of our time" or something like that. You can get into trouble that way. But even if there were a levied quota of movies which one could froth happily at the mouth about (punishment for exceeding quota: a month at Judith Crist's movie camp with continuous showings of At Long Last Love) M. would be a picture to stand by. Fritz Lang's direction turns the cinema into images which fuse with...