Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who dawdled while the economy went up in flames. "We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "Let's not kid ourselves . . . I ask you for the authority to act." He finished to whoops of applause punctuated with shouts of "Let's do it!" There was no quorum in the hall, so no vote could be taken. But given the enthusiastic response to Gorbachev's oration, the proposition seemed almost certain to pass when the Supreme Soviet resumes its debate this week...
Several veteran representatives attributed the lack of student interest to the council's ineffectiveness toward the end of last year, when it was unable even to maintain a quorum for its meetings...
Rauch speculated that the increase in feewaivers might be due to disappointment in thecouncil's actions last year, in part because ofthe body's inability to maintain a quorum at thefinal four meetings of the year...
...umbrella organization for a host of proindependence groups, won a landslide victory in the western section. The radicals did not win a majority of seats in the republic's parliament, but their bloc of more than 100 is sizable enough to prevent the government in Kiev from getting a quorum on key votes...
Much of the council's spring session was spent battling absenteeism--often unsuccessfully. The body failed to muster enough members to gain a quorum in any of the final four weeks of the year--although some council officers continue to maintain that by ejecting eight representatives who had not been showing up for meetings they had obtained the necessary quorums...