The government may not bother to set a quota for 2011, preferring to police the bigger banks month by month and one by one.

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On the margin there will be geographic areas where native population wants more immigrants to come live and work there than the nationally set immigration quota would provide.

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He said under state law at the time, he was able to set a quota for certain types of summonses, and that some officers received poor evaluations and were transferred after they didn't get the numbers.

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He will attack Labour's record in government over issues such as tax and he will set out Tory plans for an immigration quota to be set by MPs.

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In January, the central government would set an annual quota for bank loans and the money went out of the door, says Jing Ulrich, chairman of global markets in China for JPMorgan.

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Does such a practice constitute an unconstitutional racial quota or set-aside?

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Instead it set its own unilateral quota.

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Recent immigrants and wealthy blacks are thought more deserving of quota favoritism and set-asides than poor whites.

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The quota is now set at a ridiculously low 65, 000.

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Finally, in 1993, Japan, Australia and New Zealand devised a quota system that allows the trawlers to catch a set amount of southern bluefin in the wild and not one tuna more.

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The band can be set to vibrate at certain intervals if you don't meet a movement quota.

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