Green was setting quotas based less on orders than on what he saw as efficient use of equipment.

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MEPs say they should have full involvement in setting quotas, since the Lisbon Treaty gives them legal powers on fishing issues.

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That changed with the Immigration Act of 1924, which created the federal Quota Board to "preserve the ideal of American homogeneity" by setting quotas that favored Protestant Europeans.

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At a meeting with independent school head teachers, the Higher Education Minister, Margaret Hodge, confirmed the government was trying to find "more sophisticated" measures than simply setting quotas for the number of students admitted from state schools.

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While ordering the city to "cease and desist from maintaining a vehicular ticket quota, " the ruling didn't address setting numeric minimums on quality of life summonses, though a subsequent change in state law made setting quotas for those summonses illegal.

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Mr. Marino's testimony illustrated the blurry line that exists between attempts like his to motivate underperforming officers and the setting of quotas, which the plaintiffs in this case contend have prompted police officers to make thousands of illegal stops in recent years.

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Of the companies surveyed 40% says they are setting targets, quotas or other affirmative policies to move women up their corporate ladders.

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Those fiscal straits will make Iran and Venezuela reluctant to forgo revenue by making cuts of their own, setting the stage for a row over quotas with Saudi Arabia.

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