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First-choice votes will be tabulated, and quotas established for each category. Those candidates whose votes exceed the quota will be declared elected. If no candidate is elected, the candidate receiving the least number of votes will be eliminated...
...risk of someone thinking, maybe he's Puerto Rican, or maybe he's black, or just what is he? And I think until we get past that whole thing of making a point of saying "Sec? I'm using a black man, I've got my quota," nothing can be done. Because as long as that's a problem, people are going to go out to find the blackest, most obvious person. And we come in all sizes, shapes, and shades...
...hinted at: the boozy infidelities of suburbia, the shattering of some romantic girlhood dreams, the parade of horror every night on the late news. What is stressed, underscored and bludgeoned home is the general ugliness of married life. Brooks just cannot let it alone. Add to this a generous quota of misogyny (lots of beauty parlor closeups of fat thighs, wrinkled faces, and housewives struggling into girdles), and the result is a film as misguided and one-sided as the marriage it struggles to portray...
Until the dining hall opens, Mather men can eat on interhouse at the Union or any of the other Houses. House Masters, however, can set a quota on Mather men if they feel their Houses are being oversubscribed...
There is no doubt that the quota system is in need of drastic change. Permits to import oil are handed out by the Government to individual U.S. refiners. The system of distributing permits is wide open to favoritism, and the companies that get permits can make fortunes by selling cheap foreign oil at the U.S. price. That gives refiners a reason to resist changes in the system...