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...McGovern commission promulgated rules that are sometimes as vague as they are hard to implement. The stickiest guideline calls for women, youth and minorities to be represented on delegations in rough proportion to their percentage in the population. While the intent was not to set up a quota system, that is what it amounts to. The National Women's Political Caucus, for instance, is challenging delegations that do not reflect the number of women in a state, which is almost always more than one-half the population...
...Shanghai model sedan. There is no assembly line. Clusters of workers carry pieces to autos being assembled, which cranes then move along to another pile of parts in the factory. Last year the plant turned out 2,900 trucks and only 500 cars, in accordance with a quota set by the First Ministry of Machine Building. The cars, though, look well made and appear to be assembled with tender loving care. By American standards the styling is stodgy, since the last model change was made in 1964. But the factory is working on a bigger, wider model...
...protectionist strength indicated by its list of sponsors, is having a negative effect on trade policy. The Nixon Administration is afraid to submit to Congress a much-needed bill giving the President authority to negotiate new tariff concessions because it might backfire by attracting protectionist amendments similar to the quota provisions of the Hartke-Burke bill...
...debate over what is (and what is not) a female experience as distinct from feminine sensibility will no doubt go on for years, especially among the more politically committed women artists; and no doubt it will produce its abundant quota of bad, programmatic ideological illustration. No matter. The important thing is that the assumed imbalance of talent in the visual arts has begun to alter, and that Virginia Woolf s sadly true remark, " 'Anonymous' was a woman," may not describe the future...
Cooper said he had researched the admissions problem in the Princeton archives but refused to discuss other sources "until after the public hearing." According to Cooper, the 14 per cent quota hasn't changed since...