Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This technique contrasts with the long-held theory that interviewers should reach a quota of persons in various categories-poor people, rich people, Republicans, Democrats, etc.-in the same ratio that they exist in the region studied. Lou Harris, Jack Kennedy's favorite pollster, uses randomization, but employs computers to spot-check the reliability of his sampling. If he suspects that his polls did not accurately reflect certain groups, he runs cards, on which the basic characteristics of key election precincts are punched, through a computer until it turns up a precinct that coincides with the types of voters...
...economically depressed South Bend, Ind., where foreign-born and first-generation Americans make up 23% of the population, Miller assailed any liberalization of immigration quotas. He declared that a Johnson Administration bill would "open the floodgates for any and all who wish to come and find work in this country" and would increase immigration next year "threefold." Actually, Miller was wrong on what the Administration's bill, now pending in House and Senate subcommittees, would do. It would drop nationality quotas, easing immigration for persons of needed skills, but would retain an overall quota. It would allow an increase...
...world's coffee, the country's share of the market has steadily declined. While warehouses are bulging with beans, stevedores in Santos and other big coffee ports nowadays lounge about playing cards. This year Brazil will probably not be able to find buyers for its allotted export quota of 18 million bags, or 37% of the world market. The main problem: an inflexible policy of too-high coffee prices and official bungling and corruption. Last week Brazil an nounced new policy goals designed to stabilize prices and to put coffee exports on a more businesslike basis...
...meeting of the International Coffee Organization in London this month, Borio argued for considerably lower coffee quotas-the amount of coffee that producers are allowed to export-to help keep prices up by reducing the supply. Opposed by the U.S., the world's biggest coffee consumer, he wound up agreeing to a new world quota of 48 million bags-a scant 300,000 lower than the old quota. Angry at this failure, Brazilian producers also criticized Borio for selling 180,000 bags of low-grade coffee to Algeria and Lebanon at cut-rate prices...
...Quotas in Question. Thanks to rising Brazilian prices, the U.S. housewife is now paying about 89? a b. for coffee, compared with 69? last year. Europeans, burdened also with high import duties on coffee, must pay even more-about $1.30 a ?b. in London, $2 in Rome, $2.50 in Paris. Last week the U.S. Congress, never too happy with the system of quotas on world coffee, reacted in the consumer's behalf: by a narrow 194-to-183 vote, the House rejected legislation that would allow the U.S. to join in the new quota agreement. Though Administration leaders count...