Word: quota
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expressed interest, including the free-spending Yankees, who are already paying $6 million a year to last year's Matsui. This year's Matsui is likely to demand a Godzilla-like salary, but win or lose, Japanese baseball has been stripped of another superstar. Can you slap an export quota on shortstops...
...process, now done almost instantaneously by computer, continues in subsequent rounds until nine council candidates make quota and are elected—in last night’s preliminary count, for 13 rounds...
Based on the early results last night, candidates needed 1,950 first place votes to reach quota out of 19,490 ballots cast. Galluccio was the only one to reach quota in the first round, with 2,908 first-place votes...
When a candidate gets enough votes to reach “quota,” the threshold for election, the rest of his or her votes are transferred to the next candidate on the ballot...
...last City Council candidate to run on a student-oriented platform was Erik Snowberg, who ran in the 1999 City Council race while still a senior at MIT. Snowberg received 429 first-place votes, well below the necessary quota. DeBergalis, who says he asked Snowberg for campaign advice, is hoping for a better showing...