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...percenters fought back arguing that a smaller quorum could give small interest groups too much power in the association...
Yesterday's meeting broke up as irritated members dribbled out, destroying its quorum. "I guess we're all wondering if we need a Radcliffe government at all," one member said...
Some of the articles in the new constitution which the RGA did not get around to voting on yesterday contain controversial issues. The RUA quorum, for example, is very much in dispute...
...present wording of the constitution calls for 50 per cent of the College to be present in order for the RUA to take a vote. But in heated debate yesterday, some Cliffies pressed for a 35 per cent quorum. They accused the RGA of trying to sabotage the town meeting idea by setting the quorum so high...
...British House of Commons, just before it filled up one day in 1867 for a lively debate on a bill to tax dog owners, a bare quorum bothered to vote on the legislation that created a confederation out of three Canadian colonies. Canadians made no special fuss over the event. Now they are making up for their initial apathy. All year long they have been celebrating their centennial...