11.   Their centralized economies and preposterous bureaucracies strangle progress.

12.   Vranitzky and other OECD officials noted that other former centralized economies have succeeded in coming into OECD compliance.

13.   A populist movement forced the government to adopt democracy and capitalism that year, and Mongolia has since been dismantling its centralized communist economy with free-market reforms.

14.   Although not as crucial to the centralized economy as it once was, sugar remains an important source of hard currency.

15.   Although not as crucial to the centralized economy as it once was, sugar remains an important export.

16.   But under a centralized economy, little of the mineral wealth was recycled back.

17.   Early socialist policies resulted in a stagnant centralized economy for the landlocked nation.

18.   Economic development from a centralized economy to a free market has gone slowly.

19.   Gil Bruchian, who owns his own printing business, said he was voting Netanyahu because of his promises to reduce taxes and open up the centralized economy.

20.   Khatami, who studied education and philosophy, argues a centralized economy and price subsidies are needed to cushion the poor from crippling inflation.