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Government 1 uses a quota system of grading that is "unfair and inequitable," alleged the chairman of the HCUA committee on examination grading Monday...
...quota system limits each section man to giving only an allotted number of honor grades in his section, said Thomas A. Timberg '64. He said that although other courses use a similar system, "nowhere is it so stringent as it is in Government...
There is another side to the program. To keep from being completely inundated with surplus farm products, the Government, in sheer self-defense, imposes production controls. The principal instrument is the acreage quota: the farmer is assigned a certain number of acres of a given price-supported crop; his quota depends upon how many acres of that crop he has grown in the past. Despite such controls, the surpluses keep piling...
...curve of Holyoke Street, flanking Eliot and Lowell, there is Winthrop. Lacking a white tower, a solitudinous quadrangle, bushy lumps of ivy, and a Great Panoramic View of the environs a slightly threadbare Winthrop allots itself between the two halls of Gore and Standish. The House, though, has its quota of Veritas chairs. And a coat of arms. And lots of people...
...best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev's promise to give the Soviet people more bread again was thwarted. The fall guy for 1962 naturally was Pysin; this year it could very well be Volovchenko. As the new Agriculture Minister must be painfully aware, he is the fourth...