Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When votes are counted, candidates with more than a specific quota are declared elected. Election officials then look at the candidate's "surplus"--the number of votes in excess of the quota--and "transfer" them to the next choice...
...above the quota, election officials transfer the votes of those candidates with the lowest number. This process repeats itself until the proper number of candidates is elected...
...what about the Pacific Division? Why doesn't it get its fair quota of expansion teams to beat up on? Well, when you've got teams like Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers in your division, you don't deserve any more patsies to kick around...
...went into force, traders arranged for 35 ivory shipments to Japan, weighing 29 tons -- a fourth of 1988's imports. (Hong Kong officials worked overtime to approve the flurry of export permits for Japan-bound ivory.) In September Japan announced it was, "for the time being," adopting a zero quota for ivory imports. A government spokesman said Japan will follow closely the events at the Lausanne meeting before deciding whether to resume limited ivory imports. Japan's major traders have enough ivory to last a year or more...
...officials estimate that about 300,000 Soviet citizens, mostly Jews and Armenians, will send in forms during the next twelve months. The annual quota set by Washington, however, will provide no more than 50,000 with refugee visas -- a 25% increase over last year -- and an additional 30,000 with "parole" status, permission to come to the U.S. but with no financial assistance. Result: the U.S., after demanding for years that the U.S.S.R. loosen its emigration laws, will turn away more than 200,000 Soviet emigres...