Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the Administration disclosed the details of its proposed emergency rationing plan. Each registered vehicle would be limited to a fixed number of gallons per week, and any driver who did not use his quota could sell his ration coupons on a "white market" for whatever the traffic would bear. Congress rejected a similar scheme last May, and adoption of almost any rationing plan is not expected before next autumn-unless Middle East...
...last week's arguments, the plaintiffs' lawyers maintained that the 10% set-aside was wrong because Congress should order quotas only when it had made "detailed findings" of past discrimination, which it had not done in the case of construction contracts. Moreover, they insisted, the size of the set-aside itself was arbitrary. "Why 10%?" asked one of the attorneys. "Why not 4%-the number of black contractors in the United States?" Fullilove himself is fearful about the lack of restraint on quota setting. A 10% set-aside might conceivably be tolerable, he says, but the problem...
Liberals, especially Sullivan, who led the CCA ticket and became the first progressive councilor ever to top the first-ballot quota necessary for election, also benefitted from a strong tenant vote...
Wolf's surplus ballots those over the quota of approximately 2500 needed to insure election) will be redistributed to each voter's second choice candidate...
...candidate exceeds this quota, the extra ballots are redistributed to the piles of ballots for number two choices. If no one tops the quota figure, then the candidate with the lowest number of ballots is declared defeated and his ballots are redistributed, again to the second choice candidates. This process of eliminating the lowest candidate and redistributing his ballots is repeated until all positions are filled with candidates who have reached the quota mark or until eliminating another candidate would leave a vacancy on the nine-member council...