Word: quota
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because Cambridge selects city officials with a complicated system of proportional representation voting first outlined by English lawyer Edward Hare in 1859, election results will not be available for several days. Counting the paper ballots involves transferring votes from one candidate to another as contenders either reach a quota of 10 percent of the votes cast or are eliminated for having the lowest total in a particular round of processing...
...with 100 MX missiles (1,000 SWS's) and 500 single-warhead Midgetman missiles (another 500 SWS's). The Soviets could, if they wanted, keep 300 of their SS-18 missiles (6,150 SWS's) and fill the remainder of their quota with bombers and sea-launched missiles. But the goal is to penalize retention of such large weapons and move the Soviet Union-and the U.S.-to more stabilizing systems...
...Reagan with as much vehemence as many on the left would like, largely because of the skill with which the party has isolated itself from the mass of low- and moderate-income citizens. ACORN, a national organization of the poor, protested at the 1980 Democratic National Convention for a quota of one-third of delegates to be low- and moderate-income, similar to the 50 per cent quota for women. A commission headed by Black activist and Congressman Michey Leland recommended the idea to the Democratic National Committee, which rejected it in favor of another proposal that about one-third...
...tend their own fields. For Westerners this recognition seems equivalent to the rediscovery of the wheel. But with a crucial difference. The state, via the commune, has replaced the old landlord. It owns the fields; the peasant rents an allotted share of land; if he meets the state's quota (once called the landlord's rent), he keeps the rest. This is progress. It is harsh; yet the Great Cultural Revolution was far more cruel...
...lenders to take losses on the loans. "The big U.S. banks are maintaining the fiction that all their loans to weakened debtor countries are good," says George Soros, president of Soros Fund Management, a New York-based firm that manages $2 billion of financial assets. "But if the IMF quota does not go through, the banks would have to start writing off those loans more aggressively." That could set off a chain reaction that might put the international financial system in a precarious position...