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...When next you are sick, do you wish to be attended by a physician who entered medical school to fill a quota or because of his medical aptitude?" Agnew asked...
Paying for a percentage of a computer's capacity, as opposed to paying an hourly rate for processing a specific job, would encourage any one customer to use as much of his quota as possible. Since a computer's expenses are relatively fixed no matter how much use is made of the machine, the average charge for any particular job would drop as use increased, Leahy said...
...chairman of the Business School's Afro-American Union of Students had originally requested permission to attend yesterday's faculty meeting to present their views on a quota system. However, before the meeting they agreed to a compromise which will enable them to attend those faculty meetings in the future in which minority student admissions are discussed...
...hotel suite and occasionally flew them around in one of his Aero Commanders. Equally important, Freddie sought to boost the state's shaky economy by opening Maine's first sugar refinery, enabling farmers to take advantage of a much-prized 33,000-acre federal sugar-beet quota...
Open Sewer. First as Governor, then Senator, Muskie has sought to improve Maine's economy. He claimed much of the credit for wangling the original sugar-beet quota from the Department of Agriculture in 1964. When other potential sugar-beet processors became unavailable for the project, Muskie helped bring in Vahlsing, who already operated a potato-processing plant in Easton, Me., to build a sugar refinery there. Now Muskie, who opened doors in Washington for Vahlsing and helped him obtain financing, must absorb some of the blame for the mess...