Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spanish. No, he decides, he can no longer write; the whole thing is hopeless. The novella peters out as messily as could be wished, without even a period to nail down its last sentence: "... maybe we'll go to the bottom of the page get my daily quota done come on, kid, you can do three more lousy lines...
...Crocket, snapping them up at just nickels over wholesale price. The money raised this year goes to pay for the toys already purchased. At far as a fundraising target for this year, Crocket says. "You huge to do as well as last year [but] we don't set a quota...
Samaranch said no representatives of National Olympic Committees of boycotting teams would be given Olympic credentials, the national quota of media representatives from boycotting countries would be halved and the IOC would ask national sports federations to reduce judges and referees from boycotting countries to a minimum...
...that meeting Deng effectively consolidated his power over China and set about rebuilding an economy laid waste by 20 years of Maoist experimentation. The new leader's major innovation was the "contract responsibility system" that permitted peasants, once they had turned over a relatively modest quota of their crops to the government, to sell the rest on the open market. The results have been stunning: record harvests in almost every crop since 1979, and agricultural output growing an astonishing 7.9% a year...
...measures and the global economic slump. Total oil consumption is expected to increase about 3% this year over 1983, thanks partly to strong growth in the U.S. and Japan. But that pace is too slow to satisfy OPEC members, which are currently producing slightly less than their self-imposed quota of 17.5 million bbl. per day, only half their capacity. As a result, OPEC countries such as Libya and Iran have been quietly undercutting official prices to keep sales steady. "They're showing an inability to handle a moderately growing pie," says Arnold Safer, president of the Energy Futures...