31.   The automakers need locally based suppliers to keep costs down and meet government quotas for local content.

32.   The auto maker may begin selling them early to get a jump on meeting the quota.

33.   The Hopkinton, Mass. company will also slow some local building projects and require more employees to meet sales quotas.

34.   The pressure to meet recruitment quotas is fierce.

35.   The suit, which seeks unspecified damages against the city, also accuses the unit of requiring officers to meet monthly quotas for arrests and seizures of illegal guns.

36.   They contained signatures of supposed informants forged by secret police recruiters, who needed to meet a quota.

37.   They served their time without complaint, saying they understood that the police had to meet their quotas and that they were easy prey.

38.   To meet quotas, dealers may be willing to cut the gross profit margins extra slim.

39.   When New England quotas have been met, some retailers, like Roger Berkowitz of Legal Sea Foods, buy swordfish from boats as far south as Florida.

40.   When the city loses its case, it argues that since it has not taken the necessary steps, the deadline for meeting the quotas must be extended.