Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states have "assigned-risk" plans, requiring every insurance company to accept a quota of castoffs, whom they sometimes charge 150% above standard rates for minimum coverage. For some accident-prone drivers, even that price may be a bargain, but insurance companies have been so fast and loose about canceling policies that many of those dumped into the assigned-risk pool do not deserve it. In 1964-65, for example, almost 70% of New York's assigned-risk drivers had clean driving records...
...some plays had fuel gauges attached to them, their needles would indicate half full. The full half of Staircase, which opened on Broadway last week, contains uncompromisingly fine acting by the two-man cast, Eli Wallach and Milo O'Shea, and a decent quota of amusing though not wildly funny lines. The empty half consists of scanty action, no character development, and a drowsy repetitiveness that comes from distending a potentially compact one-acter into a full-length play. The comedy concerns two aging homosexual barbers and is unlikely to offend any one, except possibly barbers...
...ceilings to the marks of the wooden forms on the poured concrete piers, the new city hall is more bold than beautiful. But it possesses a rough-and-tough force and assertiveness that Jack Kennedy might, with his Boston accent, have called "vigah." Predictably, it has drawn its quota of quips, being labeled variously "the blockhouse," "an upside-down pagoda," and "the tomb of Cheops." But informal polls indicate that an increasing number of secretaries and taxi drivers are coming to like it. The architects hope that with time the city hall will accumulate the usual collection of flags...
...Jews. He is a patsy for just about any call for a benefit performance or public function-a dinner for an old friend, a White House invitation, a sports-award shindig. Sometimes, when a benefit fails to raise its quota, Bob will write a personal check for the difference. Though he gets $20,000 to $25,000 for a college date, he always turns the check back to the college scholarship fund...
...through October would thereby be selected. Or the boards could fill the year's total call by using months as the time limit, drafting those born early in each month. It could draft those born after the 15th of every month. Or they could fill each month's draft quota with men born only in that month, probably a more inequitable system since monthly calls vary by as much as 10,000. This system can be varied infinitely. Constant changes, however, are considered too administratively cumbersome to be workable...