Word: quotas
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...tendency would be to escape, if only for a moment, from present realities and journey instead into a more glorious past, into a time when the Flora twins were still nothing more than one-half of the landscape, when the immigration laws imposed a quota upon the number of Irishmen allowed enter Providence, and a time when Lions and Quakers weren't able to run quite as fast as they...
...presentation of Harvard-Radcliffe to the outside world, and what the women's colleges do. But if there is any college that can achieve 50:50, Harvard can do it." Arthurs has been consistent in her opposition to the arbitrary imposition of a 1:1 male/female admissions quota. ("I don't think it would be realistic or even necessarily fair," she says.) But still she is not totally immune to doubts shared by those who claim that equal access--Harvard style--is not all it is cracked up to be, that sexist attitudes will continue to pervade the admissions process...
...delegation from the U.S. Senate was in Moscow from June 29 to July 2 [led by Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott]. Reportedly, some of the Senators proposed a compromise whereby the Soviet leaders would promise to raise the emigration quota in exchange for the repeal of the [Jackson] amendment. This deal would be an inadmissible retreat on the part of Congress; indeed, it would be a capitulation because the right to emigrate has to be backed up by law if it is not going to be violated...
...sales of gas-guzzling cars. They opted instead for a provision requiring the auto industry to improve the guzzlers' fuel economy. The industry could finance such improvement by charging higher prices for all cars, not just the thirsty behemoths. In addition, the House voted a quota on oil imports that will not reduce imports, but will slow their rise...
...Chicago, meanwhile, the $30 million Whitney M. Young Jr. High School will open as a magnet in the fall with-among other things-an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a special center for the performing arts and a separate curriculum for medical studies. Whitney Young also has a strict admissions quota: 40% white, 40% black, 10% Latin, 5% other minorities and 5% at the discretion of the principal. Says Assistant School Superintendent Joseph Hannon: "It's supposed to be a laboratory of the city...