Word: quotas
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Rules of Order. Membership in Augusta National is strictly limited to 200, regulated loosely on a geographical quota system (no more than 50 members, say, can come from the New York area), and rigidly controlled by Roberts and Jones. "As far as I can recall," says Roberts, "nobody has ever been invited to be a member of this club that Bob and I haven't met." Augusta National's dues are a secret, as is its membership list-although some of the members are so prominent (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rubber Baron Leonard Firestone, Sportsman John Hay Whitney) that...
...measure would limit imported woolen and man-made textiles to 8.6% of domestic consumption, a level well below the 10.1% of the market that such foreign products snared last year. The Senate came within a single vote (38-37) of adding a quota on dairy imports to the same tax bill. House negotiators may well resist heavy pressure to agree to the textile quota in the Sen ate-House conference on the final form of the bill. Still, the rising strength of protectionist sentiment in Congress has brought serious threats of retaliation from a dozen countries...
...wonder hey don't call it something else"). Settled in Chambers ends up tamely with all the conventional comedy answers and one big question: What lace-curtain gentility, what damnable tact keeps lonor Tracy from finally ripping through? The book earns its solid quota of middle-volume laughter, but its uthor remains cursed by an un-Irish 'emon of cautious restraint...
Based on the estimated draft needs for fiscal 1969, Massachusetts will have a quota of 4000 men, slightly more than 1.6 per cent of the national calls. About 2500 of the 4000 will be either college graduates or first year grad students...
...setup that makes him look good. The truth, says Tarsis, is that these socialist vacations on the regime leave plenty of opportunity for grafters, people who charge exorbitant rents for private houses and those who haul in the tips of the big spenders. Simply by meeting Moscow's quota and more, Lipyan pleases his masters and has enough left over to make him that theoretically impossible anachronism: a happy capitalist in a proletarian society...