Word: quota
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Under proportional representation--a voting system unique to Cambridge--candidates for the nine City Council and six School Committee positions must reach a certain quota of votes to win a seat...
Remembering how the islands kept them in fresh fruit during hard times, the English decided to protect their loyal suppliers with tariffs and quotas levied against the giant banana producers on the South American mainland. This quota system was adopted by the European Economic Community in a close vote in 1993, with several banana-eating countries strongly opposed, most notably the Germans...
Favoring tariffs, quotas and the unfree market are an assortment of African states and Caribbean islands in cahoots with their banana-loving former colonizers, all of whom have weighed in on the side of preserving the small banana farm, which is the sole source of support for many laid-back islanders. Normally well-behaved people on both sides of the issue have been insulting each other's bananas through at least two different rounds of GATT talks, calling the rival bananas "skinny," "tasteless," "rotten" and "easily bruised." Both GATT panels have ruled that the banana quota system is a restraint...
...doesn't have enough trouble on its hands, the Clinton Administration has to decide soon whether to join with Chiquita in opposing the banana quotas in defense of open trade and a Europe free for bananas. But this begs a tough question: If we're for free bananas, what about free peanuts? Currently we've got a quota on those to protect small peanut farmers and ex-Presidents...
...dirty word. White men fear that in its name they will lose their jobs and that Hillary Rodham Clinton herself will replace them with black, lesbian single mothers. Minorities worry that no matter how many degrees they have, their white colleagues may view them as underqualified beneficiaries of a quota. Bebe Moore Campbell's captivating new novel, Brothers and Sisters (Putnam; 476 pages; $22.95), takes the notion of diversity and scrapes away all the myths and fears with which it has become encrusted...