Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first place applications to the newly-built Houses, agreed to allow under-subscribed House "raid" their over-popular brothers. Masters with a surfeit of aplications must now open their files to a limited number of raids after they have filled only 30 per cent of their House's quota. Then they resume filling up their own Houses. The process goes on to the stages of the second and third choice until the Houses reach 70 per cent capacity...
...which are reproduced in all of her body's cells, is what makes her female. But each X chromosome packs many other chemically coded instructions for the body; if both a woman's Xs remained active throughout life, she would be flooded with a double quota of some blood-clotting factors, enzymes and other vital proteins. Since she is not, something must happen to deactivate one of those X chromosomes...
...somehow account for the varying reactions to hormone therapy? First they had to find out whether there was any difference in the Barr bodies of different cancer patients. Dr. Hienz discovered that cancer cells from about two-thirds of the breast-cancer cases he was studying contained a normal quota of Barr bodies. But in cells from the remaining third of the patients he could find few or no dark spots. The absence of Barr bodies in some of the cancer cells suggested that those cells had been, in effect, partly defeminized. The change, the doctors thought, might indeed explain...
This fear originally led the dining halls to reserve a limited number of places on Wednesday nights. However, the quotas have not been filled in any dorm except Cabot; this week North House decided to eliminate as unnecessary its quota of 15 per dorm...
Last week Bern decreed that at least 10% of all foreign residents must evacuate Switzerland by the middle of next year. Moreover, the annual quota of seasonal migrant workers was cut from 206,000 to 145,000. Not only the poorer Mediterraneans are affected; some 30 wealthy foreign inhabitants in Geneva's lakeside-villa set have been given six months' notice because they are not "economically useful," though police have carefully left alone celebrities like Charlie Chaplin...