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...getting the message. This week both House and Senate are expected to pass a bill extending U.S. jurisdiction over coastal waters from its present twelve miles to 200 miles; President Ford's signature is likely. Under the bill, which will take effect next March, the Government will enforce quotas on how many fish can be caught, and by whom, within the 200-mile "resource zone." U.S. fishermen will net as much of the quota as they physically can; foreign vessels will be licensed to catch only the remainder. TIME Correspondent David Wood, who has covered the fishing industry dockside...
Each student is allocated a certain money quota of "connect time"--when he's logged in at the terminal, and more expensive "computer time"--when the computer is actually solving his problem. "I was worried to go over my budget for my thesis," one student says, "Then I saw all these people wasting so much money on Star Trek so I asked for more...
Complex Formula. The approach he praised provides for a quota system in hiring. Rogers & Wells (senior partner: former Secretary of State William Rogers) has agreed, for instance, to observe a complex "120% formula" in making job offers over the next three years. The formula is based on the number of women in the graduating classes of the twelve law schools (among them: Yale, Harvard, the University of Virginia) at which the firm does almost all its interviewing. This year women make up 21.3% of those classes; as a result, at least 25.56% (120% times 21.3%) of all the job offers...
Jews have historically nurtured a fear of quotas--quota systems had restricted them from entry to college and professions both in this country and earlier, in Eastern Europe. Because contractors were threatened with loss of funds if they did not try for results, to the writers in Commentary there seemed to be little difference between goals and quotas. And, some Jews seemed to hold a particular feeling of resentment towards blacks, who "wanted special privilege," believing that if Jews could overcome their own hardship by their bootstraps, others could as well. For those once discriminated against unofficially, it became difficult...
...class blacks receive about the same average salary as middle class whites. He also cites figures for husband-wife families that show substantial gains for these families when compared to white family gains during the period. And, he consistently reminds us, this progress occurred before affirmative action became a quota system...