Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the next few months, Masters will present Dean Watson with estimates of the amount of deconversion they wish in their separate Houses. The College will then use a system of "informal dickering" to establish a quota of rooms to be deconverted in each House, Trottenberg said...
Reginald Maulding, president of Britain's Board of Trade. announced today the abolition of quota controls as one of a series of actions dismantling Britain's wartime financial and commercial controls...
Walter J. Sullivan and Edwad A. Crane '35, became the first two City Council candidates to reach quota as the first unofficial count was completed late yesterday. Sullivan had 5,119 first place votes and Crane 3,529, both over the unofficial quota of about 3,330 votes...
...Snopes, who rises from rural bully to candidate for Congress. If the Snopes family is unforgettable, it is because Author Faulkner understands them as deeply as he hates them. And like so many hates, it seems like a first cousin to love. As always, the Faulkner writing has its quota of awkwardness, irritation, downright sloppiness. And just as surely, much of it seems in the end like some kind of smoldering, personal poetry that stands out defiantly imperfect and unassailable...
These first place votes must come through Goldberg's initiative, after which he can probably gain seconds from surplus votes of other CCA candidates who reach the quota. Goldberg is optimistic, but within limitations. He thinks he might win "if things go well," i.e., if he gets votes from where he thinks his support lies, if he gets enough first place votes, and then if the seconds come through. Being on the CCA slate helps, Goldberg feels, since his name gets widespread publicity from a source outside his own office...