Word: quota
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...Remind grousing Brazil that they've been allotted a generous 52 percent of the 5.4-million-ton slab-steel quota. And if they want to be treated like exempted NAFTA members Mexico and Canada, well, the Free Trade Association of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations - a Western Hemisphere version of NAFTA - kick off in 2005, which just happens to be three years away. Remind the Russians that they've been allotted 25 percent of that same slab-steel quota, and that if they want to be treated even better, like special-exemption Turkey, they could always be more helpful...
Voters rank candidates on the ballot in order of their preferences. When votes are counted, some candidates reach the “quota” needed for election just from ballots where they were ranked number one. Once a candidate has reached quota, any extra votes for that candidate are “distributed” to the next-choice candidates on those ballots...
Among Pedersen’s recent suggestions, Faculty members were most opposed to imposing a University-wide curve or quota for the number of A-range grades—potential solutions that would pose the greatest threat to their autonomy...
...Matthew T. Fox ’02 and Celeste L. Ng ’02 were so happy with the experience that they decided to do it again. Luckily for them, they live in Leverett Towers, a haven for coed bunking where certain bigger suites meet the appropriate bathroom quota for legitimate mixed living...
...have to believe that the even division of the 10 finalists between the West and East is hardly coincidental. If so, such a quota is horribly unfair, given that there are only 10 teams between the WCHA and the GLWHL while there are 17 ECAC teams...