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* If past affirmative action programs are any guide, I think another likely effect is going to be that unqualified and marginally qualified school applications will get admitted under this sort of setaside program but be more likely to drop out thereby leading to a further shortage of doctors and nurses.
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* If past affirmative action programs are any guide, I think another likely effect is going to be that unqualified and marginally qualified school applications will get admitted under this sort of setaside program but be more likely to drop out thereby leading to a further shortage of doctors and nurses.
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This capital sum of $200,000 shall be setaside solely for the endowment for the School or Department designated, and the interest on it shall be used for the support of this school or department and for no other purpose.
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City Controller William Thompson, a mayoral hopeful, says he has far fewer than the 26spots the city claims are setaside for his staff and suggested that politics are behind the discrepancy.
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The 1970's included: export demand growth, slow growth in US production because of setaside programs, government food policies that created demand and reduced supplies, and weather-induced crop failures.
CattleNetwork 2009
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So technically I suppose it’s a setaside not aquota.
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So technically I suppose it’s a setaside not a quota.
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So technically I suppose it’s a setaside not a quota.
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So technically I suppose it’s a setaside not aquota.
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Once the foot’s in the door, the opening wedge of sophistry is setaside.
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