Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loosening restrictions on Soviet citizens' access to foreign currencies is not just another glasnost gambit. If the Soviet Union hopes to feed itself, it must find ways of getting its moribund farming sector to perform better. Notes a senior Western diplomat: "If they could import goods from a Sears catalog, that might be a pretty good incentive...
...critics of television, of its mindless violence, of the way it ravaged the attention span needed for reading. Who was keeping kids away from TV sets then? How did promoters of Big Bird let themselves be cast as champions of the Beastie Boys -- not just of their right to perform but of their performance itself? Why should it be left to Gore to express moral disapproval of a group calling itself Dead Kennedys (sample lyric: "I kill children, I love to see them...
...been one, but this is what the Soviets were aiming for), there's little incentive to produce. The well-known goal is "from each according to his abilities, to each according % to his needs." That is a noble concept, but because it separates what people get from how they perform -- they get what they need regardless of how they perform -- it ultimately fails...
...These people do keep very, very good records, albeit oftentimes in code," said Betsy Houghteling, revenue department spokesperson. "We'll get them, we'll go through them and really perform a regular audit on these people and [levy the taxes]...on what the records indicate...
...Reagan appointees Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor, suggested that as early as next year the court may overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established the right to terminate a pregnancy. A Missouri law banning the use of state facilities and prohibiting state employees from performing abortions was upheld on the ground that it "leaves a pregnant woman with the same choices as if the State had chosen not to operate any public hospitals at all." Another provision, requiring physicians to perform tests to determine whether a 20-week-old fetus could survive outside the womb...