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Confidential company documents made available in late March suggest that Shell withheld vital information on the extent of the downward revaluation of its Nigerian reserves - by 1.5 billion barrels (60% of the country's total reserves) - because it wanted to strengthen Nigeria's hand in negotiating with OPEC to increase the country's production quota.

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I meet disabled people who have been offered jobs by businesses because they live in a country where there's a quota system, and in order to avoid a fine, they will hire you and then tell you, "You don't need to come to work because we really don't need you in the facility."

My own country, Uganda, has a quota to export 50,000 metric tons of sugar to the European Union market.

None of those countries, including Africa's most successful nation, Botswana, has ever met its quota.

I went to college during affirmative action and got a sweet scholarship to ASU, Arizona State University, because I fit every single quota.

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