Word: quotas
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Under the city's proportional representation electoral system, the ballots of the candidates who garner more No. 1 votes than a certain quota are passed on to the next highest-ranked candidate on those tickets...
Subsequently, he spoke out in opposition to the court ruling in Hopwood vs. the University of Texas, a case that originally challenged the quota system employed by the University of Texas law school and ended in a ban on all affirmative action in three states. He also organized a statement on diversity signed by members of the Association of American Universities and published in The New York Times last April...
...bustingly hilarious third act in which Eliza makes her first appearance in genteel society, Mary Klug and Celeste McClain add to the laugh quota as the dresden-china gentlewoman Mrs. Eynsford-Hill and her would-be-fashionable daughter Clara, while Neil McGarry plays an appropriately pop-eyed Freddy, Eliza's fatuous suitor. This scene-Shavian social comedy at its greatest-is probably the best of the entire production, though McConnell mugs a little too hard as the half-finished creation...
Allowing women to live in the "hallowed Yard," she said, was "just the completion of a process" that began in 1970, when the quota on admitting women to the College was lifted...
...election night, voters rank their choices among the candidates. To win a candidate must reach a quota of "No. 1" votes, based on the number of eligible voters. After a winner is declared, his or her votes are passed on to the next preferred candidate on each ballot...