Word: quorums
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...Sunday night, after the "no confidence"vote, the staff attempted to reprimand Schulmanbut lost a quorum. The group then passed a numberof propositions addressing minor procedural issuesand changes in the distribution of power in theReview hierarchy
...wildest scenario kicking around the Capitol envisions the Bush and Perot slates coming in first and second, the House deadlocking and Senate Democrats preventing action in their chamber. They could avoid an unpalatable choice between the G.O.P. and Perot's forces by refusing to provide the necessary quorum. In that most improbable event, the Speaker of the House (currently Tom Foley) would take over as President. Occupying the White House under such dubious circumstances would be nothing less than a political nightmare...
...deal with political issues, such as the much-protested attempt to bring ROTC back to campus in 1989. Others thought it might be botched council projects, like the financially disastrous 1989 Suzanne Vega concert. Still others suggested the council's institutional ineptitude, exemplified by its failure to achieve a quorum at several meetings in the spring...
...crusade continues nonetheless. Kirkpatrick Sale kicked off the anticelebration with his anti-Columbus tome, The Conquest of Paradise. The group Encounter plans to celebrate 1992 by sailing three ships full of Indians to "discover" Spain. Similar merriment is to be expected wherever a quorum gathers to honor...
Asked about attendance at Rudenstine's confirmation, one overseer responded, "There was a quorum." Turning to a fellow governing board member, he asked, "Did I say too much...