Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolf has already passed the quota of votes needed for election, approximately 3283. She said yesterday she expects her surplus of number one votes, when transferred, will strengthen the other slate members...
...election commission sets the quota, which is one-tenth plus one of all votes cast for council seats and one-seventh plus one for the school committee...
First, they tally all the number one votes, and if any candidate makes the quota, he is immediately elected (something only Walter J. Sullivan can do). His surplus votes go to whoever the voter marked number two. Candidates on the bottom of the totals are eliminated, and the women keep redistributing the ballots until nine council and six school committee candidates make quota...
...properly defined as a quota . . . It's quite clear that for some of the things that a medical school wishes to accomplish that the minority applicant may have qualities that are superior to those of his classmate. He may be far more likely to go back to [his] community to practice medicine where he's needed...
Harry Wellington, dean of the Yale Law School: "My guess is that they will reverse the California Supreme Court and send the case back for reexamination. They likely will say it is permissible to take race into account but a predetermined number or quota may not be acceptable. I would not be surprised if there were as many as five or even nine opinions...