Word: quotas
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...Bill Clinton having an attack of high moral fiber? "I've never seen the administration fighting so hard as they are on this," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., before he watched his steel-import quota bill come up three votes short on a procedural vote that would have boosted its chance of passing. Clinton the economist is fighting the quotas ?- meant to protect U.S. steelmakers from lower-priced foreign steel ?- on compelling grounds: They would almost certainly be a violation of current U.S. trade treaties. And at a time when Clinton pounds the world?s podiums calling for globalization...
Though Lowell tried to convince the Faculty to tighten admissions policies, in order to make it easier to recognize and perhaps set a quota on Jewish applicants, they eventually refused. While anti-Semitism has gradually declined since that time, the University's religious dilemmas were far from resolved...
...Lowell attempts to impose Jewish quota...
...They were so secretive, in fact, that for two of Parry's years at Harvard, the A.D. had not been able to fill the quota of members...
They were so secretive, in fact, that for two of Parry's years at Harvard, the A.D. had not been able to fill the quota of members...