Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retailers do not have to compete for the consumer's ruble, there is little incentive to produce attractive, well-made goods or to improve design. If a factory retools for a new product, the lost production time may well cost its manager his bonus for overfulfilling the sacrosanct quota. As it is, at the end of every month he is limp from shturmovshchina, the frenetic, last-minute battle to beat the quota...
...quota is expected to level off at 12,000 to 14,000 this spring, but draft officials said they saw no prospect of an increase in the age of draftees. "We expect we'll be drafting 21-year-olds un- til there's another change in the law," the Washington spokesman, said...
Welland was disappointed with his club's sloppy performance in the Bowdoin game, but hopes the team has filled its quota of bad play for the week. The rookie line's three goals and Brandy Sweitzer's play in the nets stood out in the otherwise uninspiring game...
...anguish at home. And Chukhrai pumps irony into a sequence that has Sasha posing for a photographer beside her drill press. She is alone, an unwed mother, sick with despair, but the picture is published over the caption: "Sasha Lvova finds happiness in her factory. She has enlarged her quota 163%." Director Chukhrai seems fully aware that pravda is stranger than fiction...
James F. Fitzgerald, one of the five Cambridge school committeemen, who sought re-election, was the only candidate to exceed the quota yesterday in an unofficial first count of ballots. He received 4666 first choices, 172 votes more than the 4494 necessary for election...