Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roll call was taken and the names of missing delegates echoed through the Hussein Sports City auditorium. Since the Israelis would not allow the 180 delegates who live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to attend, only 249 members of the 374-seat council were needed for a quorum. To cobble the necessary numbers, Arafat aides persuaded the deputy speaker to appoint several dozen loyalists temporarily to vacant seats. On the second day the delegates voted to dismiss Khaled Fahoum, the council speaker and an Assad ally, and replace him with Sheik Abdul Hamid...
...amendment calling for direct elections is scheduled to come up for a vote in the Brazilian Congress on April 25. Although proponents of the change could still gather enough support, it is more likely that the P.D.S. will boycott the session, preventing the two-thirds quorum necessary for the vote to take place, and that Figueiredo will present a compromise under which direct elections might take place as early as 1988. If that does not placate his opponents, however, the President may leave office next March to the beat of protests far less festive than last week...
Having observed as well as participated in the steady growth of the Undergraduate Council during the past two years. I was very disappointed at the abrupt termination because of lack of a quorum, of the Council's meeting on Sunday March 18. For the first time, even with thirty minutes remaining on the agenda, procedures were unceremoniously halted when only 40 of 96 members remained to answer the roll...
...March 4, for instance, when the Council finally considered and approved its entire $77,000 budget, fewer that half of the members remained to approve it. Had a quorum been called for then, weeks of intensive work by an entire committee would have been rendered useless and 24 student organizations would not have been able to proceed with worthy projects funded with the money of undergraduates...
...Never has the council been unable to begin one if its regularly scheduled meetings due to the lack of a quorum. I think that being unable to summon more than 21 members to the begining of a meeting is qualitatively distinct from being two members...