1.   Although Mexico has historically had a highly centralized economy, that, too, is changing, Valenzuela emphasizes.

2.   Aznar would reconstruct the centralized state economy of Francoism, and vastly increase the size and powers of the national police force and army.

3.   But he said government contacts open the possibility of much broader horizons in a mostly centralized economy.

4.   He never wanted to bury anybody, but he believed in a Soviet centralized economy.

5.   Iliescu has done little to dismantle the centralized economy.

6.   Soviet-era managers dutifully privatized their factories, pocketed the profits, and went on working on the same principle of a centralized economy.

7.   The centralized economy and strait-jacketed political culture we now have simply cannot be competitive.

8.   The impact is widespread in a country not fully weaned from a centralized economy, but other cities feel it less after diversifying economic bases with privatization and investment.

9.   The Soviet centralized economy could afford to keep towns and cities alive in the vast Arctic.

10.   The socialist state threw out multinational companies like IBM and a centralized economy made it hard for local competitors to flourish.