Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crucial signs or symbols and making writing, always a hard task, a virtual impossibility. In A Void, this onus is particularly harsh. All consonants, from stalwart b to languishing z, can occur in normal fashion; but only a, i, o and u may fill out what is ordinarily a quorum of 26. "Huh?" you may gasp, "no ...?" Shhhh! Do not think or, God forbid, say it, at any cost. To do so in this book is always risky and usually fatal...
...Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Bratislava, Berlin, in hundreds of towns and villages from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Jewish communities are re-emerging and coming together in a kind of Continental minyan, the quorum required for the holding of religious services. Synagogues and schools are rising again, some on the foundations of Jewish institutions dating from the Middle Ages. Jews are proudly calling themselves Jews once more, reviving traditions and cultures long buried in the ashes of Hitler's ovens. ``That now there is the possibility to be a Jew is mystical,'' says 18-year-old Igor Czernikow...
...Raoul Cedras and junta supporters. TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich, who was there, said hundreds of jubilant Haitians surrounded the building, chanting "Handcuff Cedras!" as U.S. troops stood by. A few blocks away, the pro-junta forces struck back, critically wounding one man. Back inside the parliament, a quorum of legislators began debate on the amnesty measure, with a majority apparently supporting it. But the vote won't be a cakewalk, Diederich says, because the Haitian constitution allows no amnesty for "crimes of blood...
...King said the association's bylaws require two-thirds of the "possible" voting board members to attend, only 11 of 17 members showed up. Nero said that made the meeting illegitimate. But because one member was in England and one in the hospital, King said he decided to set quorum at 10--two thirds of a "possible...
...half the board perished in plane accident, you wouldn't say, 'we don't have quorum,'" Davidson said...