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...excellence by applying socialist economic principles "in a creative way." Even within a planned economy, he said, there was room for "enhancing the independence of enterprises (and) raising their interest in the end product of their work." But Gorbachev also cautioned against letting the drive for greater material benefits disrupt "social justice," a signal that the Soviet Union, for all its economic difficulties, was not about to adopt the sort of incentive systems being introduced and practiced these days in Deng Xiaoping's China...
...Minister and today the acting head of her father's Pakistan People's Party. She has been in self-imposed exile in London for the past year. Pakistani police have gone to extraordinary effort to see to it that Bhutto did not try to return during the campaign and disrupt the painstakingly planned proceedings. At Karachi International Airport, security officials carefully checked the identities of veiled women returning from overseas. In London, Bhutto declared that she had originally planned to go home for the elections but had changed her mind after learning that she would be arrested on arrival...
...Yale shave certainly didn't disrupt Harvard junior Allison Greis. "I decided just to go out and do the best I could and not worry about it," said Greis, who swam to two personal bests in the 100-m and 200-m breastroke, and her times qualified her for the Eastern Championships...
...partial to Max's dreams, but they are not Hoffmann and the distractions is unwelcome. His contribution to the revival of the Hoffmann spirits of the Nutcracker cannot be underscored enough. Yet one who claims to hold the thoughts of children so dear should not constantly disrupt their vision of something so inspiring with his own wild rumpus...
...while it seems crazy to think that they Lynah Fans would disrupt a young hometown girl's skating routine because her brother defected to the Harvard hockey team, Reycroft presumably knows the Big Red crowd as well as anyone...