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quota
In international trade, a government-imposed limit on the quantity of goods and services that may be exported or imported over a specified period of time. Quotas are more effective than tariffs in restricting trade, since they limit the availability of goods rather than simply increasing their price. By limiting foreign goods, a quota aims to allow domestic goods to compete more successfully, though the price of the goods may also rise. Quotas restricting trade were first imposed on a large scale during World War I. In the 1920s, quotas were progressively abolished and replaced by tariffs, but their use was revived in the wave of protectionism set off by the Great Depression. After World War II, the Western European countries began a gradual dismantling of quantitative import restrictions, but the U.S. was slower to discard them. See also free trade.


Quito
City (pop., 1997 est.: 1,488,00), capital of Ecuador. Situated on the lower slopes of the Pichincha, a volcano that last erupted in 1666, it lies in a narrow Andean valley at an altitude of 9,350 ft (2,850 m). A pre-Columbian town, it was captured by the Incas in 1487 and taken by the Spanish in 1534. It is the oldest of all S. Amer. capitals and preserves much of its colonial atmosphere. In 1535 the Franciscans established an art school there, the first of its kind in S. America. One of Ecuador's two major industrial centers, it produces textiles and light consumer goods. It is the site of several institutions of higher learning.


quoin
In architecture, both the external corner of a building and, more often, one of the stones used to form that corner. These stones are both structural and decorative in that they often differ in jointing, color, texture, or size from the masonry of the adjoining walls. Usually quoins are toothed (i.e., set in short courses in a regular pattern of alternating lengths). Such construction dates back to ancient Rome.


Buto
In ancient Egyptian religion, the cobra goddess who was tutelary goddess of Lower Egypt and, with the vulture-goddess Nekhbet of Upper Egypt, protector of the king. She was nurse to the infant god Horus and helped his mother, Isis, protect him from his uncle Seth. She was later identified with Leto. She is depicted as a cobra twined around a papyrus stem.


Buton
Island (pop., 1980: 317,000), Indonesia. Lying off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, it is about 100 mi (160 km) long and has an area of about 2,000 sq mi (5,200 sq km). Its chief town is Baubau, on the SW coast. The coastal people are chiefly trading sailors and fishermen.


butte
(French: "hillock" or "rising ground") Flat-topped hill surrounded by a steep cliff, from the bottom of which a slope descends to the plain. The term is sometimes used for an elevation higher than a hill but not high enough to be a mountain. Buttes topped by horizontal platforms of hard rock are ...

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