Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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City Manager John H. Corcoran said the situation already is "critical" because of a new "quota system" for gas allocation initiated last month by Texaco Inc., the city's gasoline supplier...
...funds, but spoke in amounts so large that there was little choice but to use company cash. Stans, said Gulf Vice President Wild, "indicated that he hoped to obtain $100,000 each from the large American corporations"; Wild was left with the impression "that this was kind of a quota...
Under Cambridge's complex election system, a voter ranks his favorite candidate in order and a candidate must receive a certain quota of votes to win election. The tabulation dragged on for a week and a half as the votes for less successful candidates were eliminated and redistributed to the voters' second and third choices...
...formality, Romagna's ballots will be distributed today between Koocher and Pierce, the only two winners who have not reached the quota of 3648 votes needed for election. Pierce, the fifth place finisher, will almost certainly reach the quota with these added votes, but Koocher probably will not. Nevertheless, Koocher will be the sixth and final committeman...
...only clear winner at this point is Sullivan who, with 3460 first-choice votes, is clearly above quota. No results will be official until tomorrow when the count begins over again and votes are redistributed according to the rules...