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...credit package made available to France $250 million from the European Payments Union and $131 million from its quota in the International Monetary Fund, enabled it to defer payments on $186 million owed to the U.S. and the Export-Import Bank during the next three years, and to pay the U.S. in francs for $88 million worth of military supplies and surplus cotton...
...probably easier to select the brilliant scientist on an undergraduate level than it is to choose the highly talented historian. Certainly no department should award summas on a quota basis. On the other hand, the criteria should be harmonized so that the qualified student, regardless of field of concentration, has a fair chance to be graduated summa cum laude...
Into each of these lives plummets a fulsome quota of barracks-room and smoking-car bawdry and a fairly steady drizzle of Shulman's arch patter ("Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...
...Washington's week of survey: ¶ Because of the promise shown by Thor, the National Security Council reversed a three-month-old economy order by now-retired Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson cutting back research-and-development production of Thor test missiles from four a month to two. New quota under the NSC order: four a month. In sanctioning a step-up in Thor production the NSC did not rule out the Army's competitive, "hand-tooled" Jupiter, which may well go into stockpile production with Thor. Reason for production of both, with resulting complication in supporting equipment...
This drive is the first Radcliffe program that includes a quota for projects specifically to be used by both Radcliffe and Harvard. The ten-year plan, which started in 1956, includes $500,000 earmarked for the Harvard-Radcliffe Health Center and the Harvard-Radcliffe Theatre...