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After years of incremental progress in token minority admissions, colleges began full-scale programs to bring minority enrollment to the level in the overall population. Whether rigid or merely implicit, these programs took the shape of a quota system for minority admissions. This practice has provoked an outcry of "reverse discrimination" from whites who say blacks and other minorities don't have to work as hard to get into college...
...petition originated with a recently formed group of women living at Radcliffe who advocate an admissions quota system which would assure, in the words of the petition, "equal admissions with respect...
Last month, Texaco set a 25,000-gallon sales quota for the city without informing Cambridge officials. Caught short of fuel shortly after Thanksgiving, City Manager Corcoran negotiated for an extra 5000 gallons from Texaco's reserve supplies...
City officials could follow the lead of their New York City counterparts, who this week threatened to take Exxon Co. to court after the company announced a similar quota on gas sales...
...said he expects Texaco to set a new, lower gas quota for Cambridge early next week. "This is a very serious problem and I can't see an end to it just yet," he said...