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The fund's statewide quota this year is $8,250 to provide Christmas gifts for needy youngsters.
Currently, the annual quota for the gray whale catch in the region is 140 per year.
Gaines was strict about enforcing this quota, and one year, longtime writer and frequent traveller Arnie Kogen was bumped off the list.
Since the overall annual passive quota for the United States is 42, this means that it will be obligated to accept no more than 31 observation flights a year during this three-year period.
In April 2009 Greenland landed its first bowhead whale in nearly forty years after being given a quota by the IWC in 2008 for two whales a year until 2012.
For the year 2011 the quota is set at 1286 Minke whales.
Natives of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on the island of Bequia have a quota from the International Whaling Commission of up to four humpback whales per year using traditional hunting methods and equipment.
The quota was reduced to zero in that year due to sustainability concerns.
But the 1934 Tydings – McDuffie Act, or Philippine Independence Act, reclassified Filipinos as aliens, and set a quota of 50 immigrants per year, and otherwise applying the Immigration Act of 1924 to them.
He quickly became a top employee, one year filling his annual sales quota in two weeks, and tried to pitch his ideas to supervisors who largely ignored him.
It also allowed a national quota of 105 Chinese immigrants per year.
A quota of 50 immigrants per year was established.
In May 2008, Indonesia announced that it would leave OPEC when its membership expired at the end of that year, having become a net importer of oil and being unable to meet its production quota.
In that year of 1101, the Emperor Huizong of Song decided to lessen the amount of paper taken in the tribute quota, because it was causing detrimental effects and creating heavy burdens on the people of the region.
Over the whole day, the total for the same year was 89 %, against a quota of 70 %.
A limited quota of car licences are issued each year and traded in a free market fashion.
Before 1980 he was known primarily as a commercial filmmaker who could efficiently direct as many as eight genre pictures a year, helping to fulfill the quota for domestic pictures set by the government.
Numerical restrictions on visas were set at 170, 000 per year, with a per-country-of-origin quota, not including immediate relatives of U. S. citizens, nor " special immigrants " ( including those born in " independent " nations in the Western hemisphere ; former citizens ; ministers ; employees of the U. S. government abroad ).
Vaher had established a quota system of how many civil servants had to be prosecuted every year ( per county ), which is seen as reminiscent of Stalinist purges by many Estonians, a measure that Parts had endorsed.
A quota of just over 16, 000 individuals per year is now in effect.
However, he did not stand there, and the following year, he was elected to the Constitutional Convention for Belfast South, polling more than double the electoral quota.
Later the same year, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, again polling double the electoral quota.
For FY 2007, with applications accepted from April 1, 2006, the entire quota of visas for the year was exhausted within a span of less than 2 months on May 26, 2006, well before the beginning of the financial year concerned.

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He said that in place of the ban, the Vanuatu government had introduced a restrictive new quota system for imports which would make it " impossible " to export to Vanuatu.
The agreement would grant exemption to a quota of yeshiva ( religious seminary ) students and to all orthodox women from military service, would make the Sabbath the national weekend, promised Kosher food in government institutions and would allow them to maintain a separate education system.
He suspected the data would be used to set up a quota system, preventing returning veterans from enrolling at the Y.
as said earlier, trading, in the quota system, means a firm only abates if doing so would cost less than paying someone else to make the same reduction.
The British would later claim that that quota had already been fulfilled by those who had entered without its approval.
Using a gender quota to enforce Title IX in high school sports would put those young athletes at risk of losing their opportunity to play .” High school participation rates substantiate this claim.
Although Title IX's present application to high schools has not so far barred boys from sports activities, a rigid ( tit for tat ) gender quota clearly would have this effect.
Johari Baharum, parliamentary secretary of the Prime Minister's Department, stated that the PSD scholarships would remain quota based.
Their wives and children were held hostage until the workers returned with enough rubber or ivory to fill their quota, and if they couldn ’ t, their family would be killed.
Even so, the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, prevented the Poys ' immediate entry into the country until the Department of External Affairs intervened and cited an unfilled quota in the prisoner of war exchange programme with the Japanese Imperial Forces that would permit the Poy family free passage into Canada.
Casley lodged a claim under the Law of Tort for A $ 52 million in the belief the claim would force a revision of the quota.
Pennsylvania, with a quota of 260 men, had the power to nominate a lieutenant colonel, who would be the senior officer.
( It is doubtful whether the three votes would have been sufficient to elect a Senator under the election system, since they would not have achieved a complete single transferable vote quota alone and the Unionist votes were likely to transfer so heavily to each other that the Nationalist candidate would not reach quota throughout the rounds of counting.
( The extra parentheses, while not strictly necessary from a mathematical standpoint, are often included in order to make the formula seem less ambiguous to non-mathematicians — if calculated out of sequence, an incorrect result would be arrived at, producing an incorrect quota.
The court held that a race-conscious admissions process that may favor " underrepresented minority groups ," but that also took into account many other factors evaluated on an individual basis for every applicant, did not amount to a quota system that would have been unconstitutional under Regents of the Univ.
Metropolitan area or city residents, or the taxpayers, would be issued mobility rights or congestion credits, and would have the option of using these for themselves, or trading or selling them to anyone willing to continue traveling by automobile beyond their personal quota.

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The difficulty was that each day seemed to produce its quota of details which must be cleaned up immediately.
At that moment, Cora receives a telegram from the governor warning that if the quota of forty-nine cookies is not filled, she will be impeached.
France installed an import quota of 1: 7, meaning for every seven foreign films imported to France, one French film was to be produced and shown in French cinemas.
During the first three years after EIF, each State will be obligated to accept no more than seventy-five percent of its passive quota.
A successful candidate must achieve a quota, which is " calculated by dividing the Total Valid Poll by one more than the number of seats to be filled, ignoring any remainder and then adding 1 vote.
If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using PR-STV in its MMDs, an absolute majority of 50 % plus 1 will likely be the minimum required for victory ( depending on which quota is used ) so that the election in the SMD is by the alternative vote.
Once the quota is exceeded, the snow days must be made up.
Under Hare's method, simply dividing the vote by the number of seats constituted the quota and then the surplus was expected to be distributed ' at random '.
Since 1992, the IWC's Scientific Committee has requested that it be allowed to give quota proposals for some whale stocks, but this has so far been refused by the Plenary Committee.
In Australia, which uses a single transferable vote proportional representation system, they avoided the need for an electoral threshold by establishing smaller electorates with each multi-member electorate returning fewer members of a Parliament and as such requiring a higher quota percentage in order to be elected.
Advocates may regard the term " racial quotas " as particularly divisive in that it is assumed to be backed by the force of law to enable or disable certain linked programs or benefits based solely upon attainment of the one quota measure.
Other species, such as the Red-Shouldered Macaw ( Diopsittaca nobilis ), are listed in Appendix II and may legally be traded commercially provided that certain controls are in place, including a non-detriment finding, establishment of an export quota, and issuing of export permits.
With the proposed housing quota for the area high, it is expected to grow further as we progress into 21st century, and new housing will be created in the town centre in the form of flats as a result of the redevelopment plans, which are in more detail further down this article.
The economic effects of an import quota is similar to that of a tariff, except that the tax revenue gain from a tariff will instead be distributed to those who receive import licenses.
In an STV election the quota is the minimum number of votes a candidate must receive in order to be elected.
The Droop quota is the smallest number that guarantees that no more candidates can reach the quota than the number of seats available to be filled.
In a single winner election, in which STV becomes the same as Instant Run-off Voting, the Droop quota becomes a simple integral majority quota – that is, it will be equal to an absolute majority of votes.

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