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  • Siobhan: "Your can quota.†   (source)
  • …but only after various distribution catastrophes which had now been set right; the advertising campaign had offended some elderly bishops so another was devised; then came the problems of success itself, unbelievable sales, I new production quotas, and disputes about overtime rates, and the search for a site for a second factory about which the four unions involved had been generally sullen and had needed to be charmed and coaxed like children; and now, when all had been brought to…†   (source)
  • "Adorable," the foreign ladies would murmur, and the men with them would buy a rose and hand it to the lady, and that way the men would become adorable too; and Oryx would slip the coins into the bag down the front of her dress and feel safe for one more day, because she had sold her quota.†   (source)
  • Each party of boys added a quota, less or more, and the pile grew.†   (source)
  • Your share, your quota, is eighty.†   (source)
  • I've already used my quota for today.†   (source)
  • The quota for Chinese, however, is very low, and the number who want to get in is beyond count.†   (source)
  • I had to remember it wasn't his fault that Mike and Eric had already used up my quota of patience for the day.†   (source)
  • Madame, he said, when Aunt Theodosia finished her story and flashed her famous medal around the room, do you realize King Leopold cut the hands off workers who, in the opinion of his plantation overseers, did not fulfill their rubber quota?†   (source)
  • There's no quotas, no numbers.†   (source)
  • So many quota spots to fill with people from Pakistan and Fresno, right?†   (source)
  • After perhaps half an hour of visiting among the tables, the foreman reminded us that we had a day's quota to meet and people drifted back to their places.†   (source)
  • You're still making your quota.†   (source)
  • The contract specified annual sales quotas.†   (source)
  • There it was, familiar and comforting in its own strange way, a set of statements no less real than our daily quota of observable household fact.†   (source)
  • In his view an intellectually creative person must do physical labour in order to assess his own capabilities properly, and so he did his quota of work, although it interrupted his studies.†   (source)
  • I wonder why the Officer bothered hauling Lon to the top at all until I hear him muttering something to Ky about "making quota so they don't get after me."†   (source)
  • Each new lot would have its quota of provocateurs.†   (source)
  • He graduated in January 1981 and found a job with the Federal government, filling a handicap quota.†   (source)
  • Arthur informed his readers that a quota of $500 had been set by Mrs. Lars Heineman of the San Piedro Red Cross Relief Fund and that the Japanese-American Citizens' League had immediately donated $55—the largest contribution to date.†   (source)
  • Those who did not choose to leave voluntarily would bescheduled for resettlement in weekly quotas.†   (source)
  • God grant you your quota of smiles.†   (source)
  • The faimers were failing to fulfill their quota of work days--or the individual plots had been cut down to one-third acre, and some people's right back to the cottage walls.†   (source)
  • Mustering my final quota of strength, I crawled on my arms, dragging useless legs behind me.†   (source)
  • In stolen whispers we resolved on a policy: no quotas.†   (source)
  • But we would have to make adjustments for that in the kitchen quota ….†   (source)
  • But even those wild memories of his mad youth left him unmoved, just as during his last debauch he had exhausted his quota of salaciousness and all he had left was the marvelous gift of being able to remember it without bitterness or repentance.†   (source)
  • It was only the beginning of the month, and they still had weeks to move their quota of letters and parcels from one side of the building to the other.†   (source)
  • I'd exceeded my daily quota of bizarre.†   (source)
  • Such research suggests that quotas for local female leaders may be worthwhile, because they overcome the initial hurdle that blocks women candidates.†   (source)
  • They kept track of these things, and every once in a while on a Saturday a Little Feet manager came down from the home office in Pennsylvania and set a quota for each of us on shoes, socks, and accessories.†   (source)
  • You used up your yearly quota of pouting last week.†   (source)
  • Meat, seafood and eggs were all on a strict quota system, along with oil, soy sauce, sugar, salt, wheat and corn flour, rice and also coal.†   (source)
  • Others have been filling the quota and going in my place.†   (source)
  • The justice is rolling, cutting swiftly across the terrain of affirmative action and quotas and something he calls the "liberal elite," his hand chopping the air for effect.†   (source)
  • She knew nothing of Matron's quotas and edicts for Missing dogs.†   (source)
  • Quotas.†   (source)
  • I study my quota of Talmud every day, and he doesn't care what I do the rest of the time.†   (source)
  • Great, I haven't filled my quota yet.†   (source)
  • Except, alas, he has killed his quota for the season.†   (source)
  • I did obtain an unusually large quota for the Instituteand only by the special favor of some very special connections-but I feel abjectly guilty if this proved insufficient.†   (source)
  • …the toddy tapper walks
    collecting the white liquid for tavern vats.
    Down here the light
    storms through branches
    and boils the street.
    Villagers stand in the shadow and drink
    the fluid from a coned leaf.
    He works fast to reach his quota
    before the maniac monsoon.
    The shape of knife and pot
    do not vary from r8th Century museum prints.
    In the village,
    a woman shuffles rice in a cane mat.
    Grit and husk separate
    are thrown to the sun.
    From his darkness among high flowers
    to…†   (source)
  • Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts telegraphed the President, "The quota of troops required of Massachusetts is ready.†   (source)
  • The quota is all used up.†   (source)
  • Each province is supposed to pay contributions, but inland provinces have little commerce and cannot pay an equal quota.†   (source)
  • She told one of the other companions that she'd made over her quota and was calling it a night.†   (source)
  • He was directed to report what steps be had taken to meet new grain quotas set in our such-and-such.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, but I've reached my weekly quota already."†   (source)
  • The salary was $10 a week, and there was a piecework bonus for workers who exceeded their daily quota; byworking at top speed she could raise her weekly pay to as much as $n.†   (source)
  • Point two: To ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my Presidential authority to set import quotas.†   (source)
  • Do I have specific time quotas to fill, though?†   (source)
  • They have their orders and their quotas to fill, just as in a factory.†   (source)
  • Tell Rabban he either meets the spice quotas you set him or he'll be replaced.†   (source)
  • They've lifted the production quotas off my mills-for the next five minutes, I guess.†   (source)
  • Usually, the States that were not in immediate danger didn't fulfill their quotas.†   (source)
  • They know that I'm pouring more Metal than the quotas they give me could produce.†   (source)
  • Using State quotas to raise troops doesn't work.†   (source)
  • Quotas and requisitions are impractical and unjust.†   (source)
  • To fill their quotas, States competed against each other, offering enormous rewards.†   (source)
  • And only some of the States filled their quotas.†   (source)
  • The illogical system of quotas and requisitions must be changed.†   (source)
  • The principle of quotas and requisitions creates this evil.†   (source)
  • One of the worst of the Jewish police was murdered: Lejkin, notorious for his industry in hunting people down and delivering his quotas to the Umschlagplatz.†   (source)
  • After scanning the headlines, the Count delved into an article on a Moscow manufacturing plant that was exceeding its quotas.†   (source)
  • Agents who fail to meet their monthly sales quotas are sometimes forced to pay the company for their shortfall.†   (source)
  • If Rabban is driving his people to meet your spice quotas, then the Emperor need suspect no other motive.†   (source)
  • But given the imperative of feeding the cities, the precipitous decline in the harvest was met with increased quotas and requisitions enforced at gunpoint.†   (source)
  • Now there were quotas and regulations and licenses and big companies, all chasing fewer fish than there'd ever been.†   (source)
  • I said I ought to study it in detail, particularly plans and quotas for five-year plan, rather than make snap decision.†   (source)
  • Every day busloads left from the main gate, heading south with their quotas, filled with Mamas and Papas and Grannies who had postponed movement as long as possible, and soldiers' wives like Chizu, and children like Kiyo and May and me, too young yet to be out on our own.†   (source)
  • Warden replied that unless extremely moderate requests for trained security personnel—not-repeat-not untrained, unreliable, and unfit convicts—were met, he could no longer assure civil order, much less increased quotas.†   (source)
  • The towns were like scattered puddles, left behind by a receding tide, still holding some precious drops of electricity, but drying out in a desert of rations, quotas, controls and power-conservation rules.†   (source)
  • Quotas/Requisitions, States Unequal†   (source)
  • Quotas, Requisitions to Raise Armies†   (source)
  • Or, if inequalities continue to exist, they will not be as odious as those that come from using quotas.†   (source)
  • Currently, State contributions to the national treasury are regulated by QUOTAS, which haven't been met.†   (source)
  • Under the Articles of Confederation, when the federal government needs to raise troops it must requisition quotas from the States.†   (source)
  • The States-General can enter into treaties and alliances, establish duties, make war and peace, raise armies and equip fleets, determine tax quotas, and demand contributions.†   (source)
  • The legislature (the diet) has the power to make war and peace, make alliances, assess quotas for troops and money, construct forts, regulate coins, admit new states, and punish disobedient states.†   (source)
  • Taxation by State Quotas†   (source)
  • These quotas will ensure a reduction in imports even below the ambitious levels we set at the recent Tokyo summit.†   (source)
  • "Air force guys can get their quota in one or two days," Peewee said.†   (source)
  • She was a lightning knitter who completed her quota of socks long before noon.†   (source)
  • She had set a quota on my earnings and ordered me to return the money to her.†   (source)
  • Halina and Henryk made up today's quota of five.†   (source)
  • You're over the day's quota and it's not yet noon."†   (source)
  • If you set each year's quota a bit higher than the one before, matters will soon reach a head there.†   (source)
  • Dinner was always late since he had to finish his day's quota before he could come home.†   (source)
  • Those are the only ones who either made the quota or topped it, Brother Leon.†   (source)
  • And last year, the quota was half of what has to be sold this year.†   (source)
  • How many guys reached the fifty quota today?†   (source)
  • Usually, the guys have a quota of twenty-five boxes each to sell and the price is a dollar.†   (source)
  • It was better than sticking one kid with the entire quota, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • Land values and population numbers have been suggested as ways to determine each State's quota.†   (source)
  • Of course, if a State falls behind paying their money quota, it can be made up.†   (source)
  • Whether it is used to raise men or money, the quota system is unequal and unjust.†   (source)
  • Our own figures show them to be slightly ahead of quota for the first nine hours.†   (source)
  • The Air Force had its quota or something.†   (source)
  • Emily: "It's not just the can quota.†   (source)
  • He had beaten his quota.†   (source)
  • "Well, you have a certain, well, I don't want to say quota, but there's a number of questions that would be ideal and expected for you to answer in a given workday.†   (source)
  • The quota was impossible for me to meet, so, in desperation, I once stole nine dollars from the piggy bank of a small girl who lived in our neighborhood.†   (source)
  • In the aftermath of one such dinner with an old director friend, Anna was cast for a single scene as a middle-aged worker in a factory that was struggling to meet its quota.†   (source)
  • We've been out overlong arranging to deliver our spice quota to the free traders for the cursed Guild …. may their faces be forever black.†   (source)
  • She glanced back as they passed beyond the arch, said: "They hurry to finish the quota in the plastics shop before we flee.†   (source)
  • It tells him that his request for new troops is denied, that his spice harvest is far below quota, that he must wring more spice from Arrakis with the people he has.†   (source)
  • Is there a quota you have to meet?†   (source)
  • The ones on the loose, bucking the authorities, are single men, so the married ones have to go to fill the quota.†   (source)
  • What's your quota of Talmud?†   (source)
  • Their chief made it a rule that any squad that had failed to meet its quota had to stay In the forest after dark.†   (source)
  • He had first gained prominence as a factory manager, an engineer with a reputation for fulfilling his quota early, a man who produced results.†   (source)
  • An Indian-style quota of women officeholders seems to break down gender barriers so that afterward the political system becomes more democratic and open.†   (source)
  • But instead of simply increasing the African quota, the authorities reduced the amount of sugar that Coloured and Indian prisoners received by half a spoonful, while adding that amount for African prisoners.†   (source)
  • But even in all this craziness— with Burt saying in my ear that my sock quota was low so Push Socks, Push Socks and the mall Muzak blaring Barry Manilow and all the hands, all colors and sizes, grabbing at the shoes in front of me-I felt that eerie calmness, that floating feeling, that had followed me for the last few days.†   (source)
  • Each family was apportioned a small quota of black coal on strict rations, but we only used it to ignite the half-burned coal, which looked like little pieces of gray sponge.†   (source)
  • It was a common practice in Soviet industry for workers to earn bonuses by manufacturing goods over the usual quota, goods that bypassed what quality control existed in Soviet industry.†   (source)
  • I refer to the quota of grain shipments—and to the increased quota, a matter of thirteen percent, for this new fiscal year.†   (source)
  • My dia was not yet home from work and often he had to finish his quota of lifting heavy materials for the morning before he was allowed to take his lunch hour.†   (source)
  • Rearden," he said, "I wanted to tell you that if you want to pour ten times the quota of Rearden Metal or steel or pig iron or anything, and bootleg it all over the place to anybody at any price-I wanted to tell you to go ahead.†   (source)
  • It was contemplated that this system would, by end of five-year plan, produce entire new grain quota; in meantime client-employees producing grain privately would be allowed to continue.†   (source)
  • The owner of a copper mine in Arizona, who reported to us that you had purchased an extra amount of copper last month, above the regular tonnage required for the monthly quota of Rearden Metal which the law permits you to produce.†   (source)
  • Discussions of how to augment our shipments must be based on the facts of nature, not on the false assumption that we are slaves, bound by a work quota we never made.†   (source)
  • It would be harder for the other guys to meet the quota—already they were groaning and moaning —but John was supremely confident.†   (source)
  • A series of blank rectangles had been drawn beside each name which, Leon explained, would be filled in as each student sold his quota of chocolates.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Brother Leon intoned, "the quota is doubled this year because we have more at stake than ever before."†   (source)
  • Brother Leon had promised to put up a special honor roll on the bulletin board in the main first-floor corridor for those who made their quota or exceeded it.†   (source)
  • You've made the quota, Parmentier.†   (source)
  • Usually he found some willing kid who'd gladly sell Archie's quota along with his own, figuring it was something special to be singled out by The Assigner of The Vigils.†   (source)
  • A quota of fifty boxes.†   (source)
  • Therefore, trying to calculate each State's quota by using a rule based on land or population would be glaringly unequal and extremely oppressive.†   (source)
  • He might have become an All-American halfback and ended up selling bonds and adding his quota of babies to a sum already disastrous.†   (source)
  • Powers, a machinist's mate who'd survived the sinking of the carrier Wasp, preferred to have three women bedded simultaneously to perform a variety of sexual services and, he said, seldom had trouble filling the quota.†   (source)
  • This I distributed among the principal inhabitants gratis; and as soon as I could suppose their minds a little prepared by the perusal of it, I set on foot a subscription for opening and supporting an academy; it was to be paid in quotas yearly for five years; by so dividing it, I judg'd the subscription might be larger, and I believe it was so, amounting to no less, if I remember right, than five thousand pounds.†   (source)
  • Then he gave to each a scrawled order for his morning quota.†   (source)
  • All right!" he said, smacking across the buttocks a small boy who had bent for his quota.†   (source)
  • For several years he ordered, from time to time, the alloted quota—a gallon of whisky every two weeks—from Baltimore.†   (source)
  • Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled.†   (source)
  • Arrangements had not yet been completed for obtaining the full quota of horses, but those who had horses performed what they imagined to be cavalry maneuvers in the field behind the courthouse, kicked up a great deal of dust, yelled themselves hoarse and waved the Revolutionary-war swords that had been taken down from parlor walls.†   (source)
  • I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and cageyness, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear.†   (source)
  • In the preceding quarter, it appeared, the Tenth Three-Year Plan's quota for bootlaces had been overfulfilled by 98 per cent. He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces.†   (source)
  • But kind words and smiles gained their confidence, and then they followed in a body, gathering a quota of new children at each house.†   (source)
  • It was to this effect: In the case of a war-ship short of hands whose speedy sailing was imperative, the deficient quota in lack of any other way of making it good, would be eked out by draughts culled direct from the jails.†   (source)
  • He well remembered the last interview he had had with the old prince at the time of the enrollment, when in reply to an invitation to dinner he had had to listen to an angry reprimand for not having provided his full quota of men.†   (source)
  • Why do they not dissolve it themselves--the union between themselves and the State--and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury?†   (source)
  • The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers, many of whom disembarked at Singapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers.†   (source)
  • This excellent result is effected by societies for all manner of virtuous purposes, with which a man has merely to connect himself, throwing, as it were, his quota of virtue into the common stock, and the president and directors will take care that the aggregate amount be well applied.†   (source)
  • Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities—Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres, and long-robed Armenians—were collected.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Thorpe and her son, who were acquainted with everything, and who seemed only to want Mr. Morland's consent, to consider Isabella's engagement as the most fortunate circumstance imaginable for their family, were allowed to join their counsels, and add their quota of significant looks and mysterious expressions to fill up the measure of curiosity to be raised in the unprivileged younger sisters.†   (source)
  • This, however, is an evil inseparable from the principle of quotas and requisitions.†   (source)
  • The principle of regulating the contributions of the States to the common treasury by QUOTAS is another fundamental error in the Confederation.†   (source)
  • In order to furnish the quotas required of them, they outbid each other till bounties grew to an enormous and insupportable size.†   (source)
  • What remedy can there be for this situation, but in a change of the system which has produced it in a change of the fallacious and delusive system of quotas and requisitions?†   (source)
  • The power of raising armies, by the most obvious construction of the articles of the Confederation, is merely a power of making requisitions upon the States for quotas of men.†   (source)
  • The States-General have authority to enter into treaties and alliances; to make war and peace; to raise armies and equip fleets; to ascertain quotas and demand contributions.†   (source)
  • The system of quotas and requisitions, whether it be applied to men or money, is, in every view, a system of imbecility in the Union, and of inequality and injustice among the members.†   (source)
  • Or, if inequalities should still exist, they would neither be so great in their degree, so uniform in their operation, nor so odious in their appearance, as those which would necessarily spring from quotas, upon any scale that can possibly be devised.†   (source)
  • The truth is, that the existence of a federal government and military establishments under State authority are not less at variance with each other than a due supply of the federal treasury and the system of quotas and requisitions.†   (source)
  • The danger of delay obliges the consenting provinces to furnish their quotas, without waiting for the others; and then to obtain reimbursement from the others, by deputations, which are frequent, or otherwise, as they can.†   (source)
  • The States near the seat of war, influenced by motives of self-preservation, made efforts to furnish their quotas, which even exceeded their abilities; while those at a distance from danger were, for the most part, as remiss as the others were diligent, in their exertions.†   (source)
  • The change relating to taxation may be regarded as the most important; and yet the present Congress have as complete authority to REQUIRE of the States indefinite supplies of money for the common defense and general welfare, as the future Congress will have to require them of individual citizens; and the latter will be no more bound than the States themselves have been, to pay the quotas respectively taxed on them.†   (source)
  • …the impartial and discerning, that there is an absolute necessity for an entire change in the first principles of the system; that if we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration, we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities; we must extend the laws of the federal government to the individual citizens of America; we must discard the fallacious scheme of quotas and requisitions, as equally impracticable and unjust.†   (source)
  • …may exercise, the power of collecting internal as well as external taxes throughout the States; but it is probable that this power will not be resorted to, except for supplemental purposes of revenue; that an option will then be given to the States to supply their quotas by previous collections of their own; and that the eventual collection, under the immediate authority of the Union, will generally be made by the officers, and according to the rules, appointed by the several States.†   (source)
  • The diet possesses the general power of legislating for the empire; of making war and peace; contracting alliances; assessing quotas of troops and money; constructing fortresses; regulating coin; admitting new members; and subjecting disobedient members to the ban of the empire, by which the party is degraded from his sovereign rights and his possessions forfeited.†   (source)
  • The horse having reached the end of his tether, so to speak, halted and, rearing high a proud feathering tail, added his quota by letting fall on the floor which the brush would soon brush up and polish, three smoking globes of turds.†   (source)
  • The same instrument, says another, obliges each province to levy certain contributions; but this article never could, and probably never will, be executed; because the inland provinces, who have little commerce, cannot pay an equal quota.†   (source)
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