Word: quota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stating that, "neither I nor anyone else has the right arbitrarily to by-pass the constitution," he observed that the only legitimate way to bring the Council up to its quota was by the existing constitution, which must remain valid until it has properly been replaced or amended...
...implement a long docket of projects for the coming year, the Student Council at its regular weekly meeting last night went ahead with plans to fill its quota in a fall election by appointing a 16-man nominating committee...
...China reported a waiting list of 4,000 students-double the usual yearly quota -whose passports were stamped and ready whenever...
...their birthright. Despite posters and propaganda, Army enlistments were not going well. This week, however, the Army was assured of a trickle of replacements. Local boards, after a two months' draft holiday, prepared notices ordering up 25,000 19-29 year-olds for the Army's September quota...
...revealing article showed the statistical deceptions practiced by harassed managers to meet the stiff goals of the new Five-Year Plan. The Stalinogorsk Coal Trust had "never fulfilled its plan." But its figures for the last three days of July were inflated to make up the month's quota. A mine that never produced more than 150 tons of coal a day suddenly reported a 544-ton output...