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Second, both pieces of legislation were framed to invoke the idea that voters were merely choosing to cut off special privileges awarded to gay people. Colorado's legislation obscured its true message of legalized discrimination with a phrase about "quota preferences...
...following an extensive investigation, the Department of Education concluded that Harvard's admissions process was not quota-based. It did find that Asian-Americans were admitted at a lower rate than other groups, but only because legacies and athletes received preferential "tips...
...take action. Some may have been encouraged by changes in the laws that resulted, ironically, from President Bush's surprising reversal on the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Just one week before Hill's appearance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bush decried the measure as a "quota bill." Shortly after the hearings, Bush made a quick peace with the legislation. As a result, harassment victims, formerly able to claim only back pay and reinstatement, can now seek federal damages awards, both compensatory and punitive...
...everyone accepts Martini's assessment -- or at least the accreditation council's action. "We can't correct all of the problems in the distribution of health care by putting a quota on medical education," says Dr. J. Lee Dockery, executive vice president of the American Board of Medical Specialties. A better way to boost the number of primary-care physicians, he argues, is to provide them with more incentives...
Seed Money for EDS. An aggressive salesman can sell customers things they don't need and can't afford. One of the most enduring myths about Perot is that he sold so hard in his final year with IBM (1962) that he achieved his sales quota in mid-January. Less known is the fact that he reached this quota -- and pocketed a commission estimated at $30,000 (nearly $150,000 in today's dollars) -- from the "sale" of a single computer that was never actually installed...