Every state had a quota of men to fill, and those quotas were broken down to the township level.
A centralized migration bureau matched receiving countries' employment needs with refugee quotas, often broken down by occupation.
Many Mediterranean fleets acquired new, more powerful purse seine boats in 2005-6; and having invested in them, owners now need to catch above quota to break even, he said.
Internal strife, dissensions in the ranks, threat of oil production quota discipline breaking down, fears of trade wars and unpredictable actions by none other than the President of the United States, are certainly issues OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo could do without under most circumstances.
However, in addition to the usual quota of breaking waves, sea creatures and idyllic forests, the Sawdust offers a greater diversity, everything from glass works and furniture to hobby horses and painted T-shirts.
This seems like a propitious moment for femmes d'affaires, with France on the verge of being the largest country thus far to impose quotas to break the boardroom boys' club Norway and Spain also have quotas.
He is just about to release a second album of traditional songs; the first, No Earthly Man (2005), was entirely composed of murder ballads, savage killings and desperate hauntings; this one, Too Long in This Condition, takes in infanticide and arson and a healthy quota of ancient broken hearts and lost loves.
The introduction of ITQs in 1999 allowed quota allocations to be broken down and traded in smaller units of entitlement.
(Local quotas would probably have broken World Trade Organisation rules).
Some policy wonks think that satellites should now also be used to track those boats and ensure they are not breaking quota agreements.
In the big Saturday race at Kempton, there was nothing abusive about winning jockey Will Kennedy's whip use on Swincombe Flame, but it transpired that he had broken the new quotas on 'hits', albeit narrowly.
