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...intact a pair of reverse-discrimination decisions that favored whites. In the first case, white Birmingham, Ala., firefighters successfully objected to 14 city promotions of blacks, complaining that they had been "passed over" despite scoring higher on the promotion exams. A U.S. appeals court had struck down Birmingham's quota plan as unconstitutional. In the second case, the justices let a white man collect $425,000 from a Pittsburgh company he accused of denying him a promotion because of his race. Though many Court-watchers are looking for signs of thecurrent Court's stance on affirmative action, TIME law correspondent...
...Canadian government itself imposed a moratorium on cod fishing in the Grand Banks--at enormous cost in lost fisheries revenue and a massive re-education and assistance plan--the government called for a 60-day moratorium on turbot fishing while it dealt with a challenge to the European Union quota. That quota was 3,400 tons per year for EU boats. In the first two weeks of 1995, EU boats caught over 7,000 tons of turbot. Predictably, the European Union ignored Canada and continued to fish just outside of the 200-mile limit. The EU threatened to send warships...
...long day of fund raising. Nashville attorney Joe Barker and his banker wife Patricia had agreed to find 25 people to buy $1,000 tickets to this week's dinner. With less than a month to go, the Barkers were still shy of their quota, so instead they invited 40 friends over to hear Alexander give a sneak preview at no charge. Merlot and asparagus canapas were passed among the mix of Republicans, Democrats and independents. As usual, the candidate didn't ask for the cash. After speaking, Alexander turned the floor over to Joe Rodgers, his finance co-chair...
Guinier was characterized in the media as a "quota queen" for her views on minority voting rights. In fact, she has written in support of proportional voting, used in some communities in the South, an alternative voting method designed to increase minority representation in governmentposts...
...subsequent relations with his grown son, so piteously revealed by their correspondence, inevitably revolved around the twin subjects of career and money. Leopold, in Solomon's view, never reconciled himself to Mozart's maturity and in a thousand ways endeavored to infantilize and emasculate him. "Always pursuing his quota of freedom, Mozart constantly drew back and returned to conditions of bondage," Solomon writes. Mozart's lifelong fear of his father determined his behavior. When on July 3, 1778, his mother died in Paris, where Leopold, despite her protestations of poor health, had sent her to accompany Mozart as he sought...