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...candidates agree on one strategy: to minimize their status as students. On all other issues they court different Cambridge interest groups to achieve the quota needed to win in the City's proportional representation system of voting...
...year-old Government major is opposed to a quota system of hiring in the school system and considers himself a strong supporter of giving priority to Cambridge residents for City jobs...
Garcia said he supports the quota system of hiring in Cambridge schools but only if the system is supplemented with on-the-job training programs. He agrees with Romagna that Cambridge residents should have priority for Cambridge jobs, but not at the complete exclusion of other applicants...
...pretty low mentality," said Corporal John Fisher, 25, a veteran of almost five years in the reserves. "A couple of guys in this unit can hardly even read. They must have been given the answers to the test so the recruiters in Buffalo could meet their quota...
Militant Elitism. White persuasively argues that the formula devised to determine the makeup of delegations to the 1972 Democratic Convention could not help working against the goal of fairness. The "quota idea," White says, inevitably excluded as well as included. "By insisting on a fixed proportion of youth, for example, and ignoring a fixed proportion of the elderly, it excluded the old. By insisting on a fixed proportion of blacks, Indians or Spanish-speaking and ignoring, say, Italians, Poles, Irish, Jews, old-stock colonials, it restricted." The Democrats' Pepsi delegations, White suggests, were ready-made for McGovern...