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But the proposal was voted down earlier this month by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024

After the AWG settles on a site, the proposal must be approved by 60% of the two dozen or so members of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy.

From Science Magazine • May 5, 2022

Victoria Sandino, Farc commander and co-chair of the Gender Subcommission in Havana, Cuba, is currently based at a heavily guarded hotel in Bogotá, along with other Farc leaders.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2017

What will survive of us is plastic The Anthropocene Working Group of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy – a title straight out of Gormenghast – was created in 2009.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2016

An Educational Subcommission headed by Major C. W. Washburne, onetime Winnetka, Ill. superintendent of schools, is now distributing a million new textbooks for little ex-Fascists.

From Time Magazine Archive