Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quota may be difficult to attain this year, however, because both Adams House and the Freshman Union have scheduled their Christmas dinners for the same night as the fast, Truesdale said. Nevertheless he expressed optimism that enough students would register and added that instead of asking Adams residents and freshmen to skip meals. COCA will distribute envelopes to them requesting a one dollar donation...
...farmer uses his own money, or borrows it at a low interest rate. Each year he signs a four-page contract that obligates him to turn a fixed amount of his produce over to the state; the amount is set low enough to enable the peasant to exceed his quota if conditions are normal. Anything he can produce above his quota he keeps for himself, sells to the state, or carries to one of the 37,000 free markets that have proliferated across China since they were made legal...
...issue was one of the hottest of the campaign. Sullivan, an Indpendent, said that the CTA should determine a minimum quota of minority teachers. Under her plan, only seniority would count as long as the schools maintained the quota...
Independent Walter Sullivan led the city in total votes for the 11th straight election, collecting 2933 votes to go 425 over the "quota" needed for election...
After all of the surplus votes from the candidates who reach quota are transferred to the second choice candidates, the election commissioners begin to work from the bottom up. The weakest candidates are declared official losers, and their supporting ballots are redistributed according to the second choice on each of these ballots...