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Statistics released last week with the Cabinet's new orders showed that the commissariats managed to "overfulfill" their total quotas in many cases by grossly underfulfilling certain subsidiary categories.

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Though workers who overfulfill production quotas are showered with medals and occasionally cash bonuses, wages, too, are generally controlled, on the basis of supply of consumer goods available.

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If we could overfulfill our production plans like that it would be great.

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Factory managers who developed the capacity to overfulfill their production quotas, for example, frequently had trouble finding enough raw materials to do so.

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Although the regular work schedule was eight hours, workers were called upon to perform volunteer labor and to overfulfill norms.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane