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...voter can choose as many candidates as he likes, listing them in preferential order (1, 2, 3, . . . etc.). The ballots are then put into piles according to which candidate received the "number one vote" on each blank. On the basis of the total voter turnout, the quota needed for election is determined (for the Council, it is one tenth of the vote plus...
...stigmata are all here-dread, panic, menace, mocking comic absurdity, the evasive unwillingness of people to level with each other. Except for Edward Flanders, the American cast is often blunt and plodding when it should be sardonic, cutting and athletic, but Pinter nevertheless provides prickly excitement and a tantalizing quota of questions without answers...
...picture is not all bleak. Some employers have sought to fight prejudice by setting an unofficial quota so the number of immigrants is kept below a particular level in any one department. After a difficult introductory period many employers have found that the hostility dise down...
Legislative Ploy. Lobbyists, signing up in record numbers to support the bills, pushed a legislative ploy to accomplish it. The quota legislation ended up in Louisiana Democrat Russell Long's Senate Finance Committee as riders on a bill raising social security benefits 12.5%. The reasoning was that President Johnson would be loath to veto the social security provisions. Jubilantly, Oscar R. Strackbein, who as chairman of the Nationwide Committee for Import-Export Policy is the chief lobbyist for high tariffs and has been around Washington longer than many a legislator, predicted that this time trade restrictions would be adopted...
Despite such pleas, some sort of import quota restrictions seem likely to go through the Congress. And if that happens, the result can only cause incalculable damage to the cause of world trade, upon which the U.S. itself increasingly depends...