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...Ukraine, an investigation into the breakdown of tractors led to the discovery that quality-control experts at a tractor-parts plant were routinely approving defective goods in order to meet (or surpass) production quotas. They thereby became eligible for bonuses, scrolls of honor and other incentives. Most startling of all, one of the suppliers had an officially sanctioned quota for defective merchandise: 5% of production...
...fact, McLaughlin could garner victory number 100 on the same evening that Carrabino-in his 100th game-could surpass. Donald Fleming as Harvard's highest scorer...
...strategic nuclear weaponry and later to pursue superiority. That would take time and would involve astronomical expense, but there was no risk. But such expenditures would inevitably undermine Khrushchev's plans to aid the consumer. Khrushchev had unrealistically committed himself with widely touted promises "to catch up with and surpass America" by 1970 in overall production. He wanted guns and butter, or a modest amount of butter anyway...
...HARD to believe that the next piece could surpass the previous ones, but Ailey's works always exceed expectations. The last dance was "Revelation." his most popular work. The suite "explores motivations and emotions of Afro-American religions music" including gospel songs, spirituals, song-sermons and blues...
...committee expects that income will equal or even surpass the cost, as it did last time. The sources: ticket sales, souvenirs ranging from cuff links and tie-bar sets ($25) to porcelain eagles ($1,750), and $2.2 million from advertising on the televised portion of the Inaugural gala (ABC). But some cost-cutting efforts have backfired. Seeking 200 performers for public events, a committee consultant placed an ad in a trade publication for nonunion, "clean-cut, All-American types," to work for expenses but no wages. Several unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, which Reagan headed more than three decades...