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...team's technical support staff, most of whom are Rossignol trained. The case against the skis gained new evidence when a French downhill contender, Philippe Verneret, substituted skis from an Austrian company for his final run and improved his time by two seconds, enough to boost him from 27th to eleventh place...
Gorbachev last year also put his mark on Soviet domestic affairs. In the spring he presided over the 27th Communist Party Congress, which endorsed his plans for "acceleration and restructuring" of the bureaucracy-bound economy. More important, the Congress swept out nearly half of the Central Committee's 307 members and gave Gorbachev a solid majority on the twelve-man Politburo. The top echelons of both the state and party apparatus are now staffed by people who share Gorbachev's activist policies...
...first Crimson runner in the 5000-meter race was sophomore Toby Warden, who placed 27th with a time of 17:34.01. Warden, running in her first varsity regional meet, felt the competition was "a good experience...
Perhaps the most important statements Gorbachev has made during his first two years in power concern common security. "The character of present-day weapons," he told the 27th Soviet Communist Party Congress, "leaves a country with no hope of safeguarding itself solely with military and technical means . . . Security can only be mutual . . . for the fears and anxieties of the nuclear age generate unpredictability in politics and concrete actions...
...increase of just 2.8% last year. In the black-owned group, computer firms and other high- tech ventures showed some of the strongest increases. One such company, Maxima of Rockville, Md., which provides computer services to the Government, boosted sales 24.3% last year, to $28.4 million, putting it in 27th place on the Black Enterprise list. The fastest-growing company in the group is Houston's Lawson National Distributing, a bus-assembling firm, which grew 141% in 1985, to $26.5 million...