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While honors is currently rewarded according to a GPA cutoff, according to Feldman, the plan to switch it to a University-wide percent quota of 60 percent may encourage instructors to inflate individual grades in hopes of garnering more honors for their students...
...began a month early, a particularly nasty strain of the virus popped up too late to be included in vaccine preparations, and at least nine flu-stricken children in Colorado and Texas have died. Now comes word that vaccine manufacturers have shipped their entire inventory--enough for the usual quota of 80 million shots. But demand has been so high that some areas are beginning to see shortages...
...with skilled labor from overseas. Countries are beginning to collaborate to regulate the flow. The Spanish and Moroccan governments announced last week that they would launch joint marine patrols to head off illegal immigration. The E.U. has begun negotiations with 11 countries to give them a guaranteed legal immigrant quota in exchange for more cooperation in stopping illegals. So far, Albania, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Macao have all agreed to accept the return of any immigrant that passed through its territory on the way to the E.U. No European country is ready to yield its immigration policy...
...that's not all. "We have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin," said Evans. So is the President's approval rating in textile states, for it is hard to see what else could explain the new quotas. "U.S. imports from China," Evans said, "are five times greater than our exports." The illiteracy here is the assumption that imports are bad and that the purpose of trade between nations is to expand exports--a fallacy that was exploded, oh, sometime in the 1830s. The point of free trade is to allow economies to specialize in what they do best...
Maybe Gaullet Elementary doesn’t have the requisite number of child bullies, and the administrators want to meet the quota. Or maybe administrators equally punish students who say things like “school desk” or even “ignorant educators who falsely claim to have one hint of common sense...