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...they pay to OPEC. The companies would then have greater incentive to explore for oil in non-OPEC nations. We should emulate Japan and Germany and set up a program partially funded by the Government to finance the search for new oil finds. Finally, we should impose an import quota on OPEC oil and create a North American free trade zone for energy to encourage deliveries from Mexico and Canada...
...remedy racial imbalance in the skilled labor force. Less than 2% of these craftsmen were black, although blacks made up 39% of the local work force. During 100 minutes of oral arguments last week, Weber's lawyer, Michael Fontham, said that such an explicit racial quota violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans job discrimination on the basis of race. "You mean you can't avoid discrimination by discriminating?" said Justice Byron White. "Yes, your honor," Fontham replied emphatically...
...distrustful and more self-protective. Very few people can drive me to near tears with frustration. Not the blatant bigots, to whom I am at best a "little black girl," at worst a "nigger." Nor can the less obvious ones, who impute my presence to affirmative action and the quota system. They lost their power to hurt me seriously long ago. I'm inured to it. It is only in those rare occasions when I delude myself into thinking that I am entering an atmosphere that is somehow benign or "safe," where I'm not going to have to watch...
...Rockies cheaper than the Alps, but condo buyers are mainly affluent U.S. skiers. A big reason for Aspen's inflation is its restrictive zoning and new growth-management plan, which encourage low-income housing and limit the pace of luxury construction. Says Hans Cantrup, a developer: "The building quota has already been used up for the next three years." Canny Cantrup has growth-management approval for his plans to put up 30 town houses. Price: $1 million each...
Your article entitled 'Sleazy Letters' oversimplifies the issues of affirmative action. You imply that the only way Third World people can enter into the higher education institutions is by these "quota systems" which, in turn, select only the people least qualified. You then imply that the only reason that these "quota systems" were established came about as a result of the violence of other Third World people who did this because they did not have anything better to do with their time. By this you imply that there are no qualified Third World students that would enter into Graduate programs...