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Though Gorbachev may exhibit a more amiable personality than his predecessors, there is no reason to doubt that he is cut from the same ideological cloth. Despite his relative youth, he has not openly identified with the aspirations of Soviet citizens under age 30, who now make up half the population. His speeches at home often ring with the same doctrinaire phraseology as those of his most orthodox Politburo colleagues. Totally a product of his party's system, Gorbachev flourished by avoiding risks, not by taking them...
...colored substance that is left after the liquid is squeezed out is coca base, the raw material that is sent to refineries to be turned into cocaine. This transformation is accomplished by combining the paste with ether and acetone to remove impurities, and filtering the mixture through tightly woven cloth, leaving a slurry. When this is dried in its turn, it becomes concentrated cocaine hydrochloride, so potent that consumption could lead to seizures or death. The pure cocaine is cut with substances such as sugar, talcum powder or flour to produce the high-priced "snow" sold on the street...
...segments must be made of strong cloth and must be 24 inches high and 40 inches long in order to be stitched together, said Ellen Sarkisian, a teaching consultant at the Danforth Center who is organizing the ribbon movement at Harvard...
...other, more commonplace businesses are conducted. These technologies, he says, are "transforming the whole economy." Textiles and apparel making, for example, are usually considered labor-intensive, backward industries. But instead of being displaced by that technology, contends Zysman, textile manufacturing is part of the new industrial revolution. Cloth can be cut by laser beams, and looms are driven by computers programmed, ironically in some cases, to duplicate the irregularities of hand weaving. Insurance companies offer a variety of policies that would not have been possible before the arrival of computers. Even salami is cut precisely with equipment guided by microprocessors...
...supermail is shattering old ways. In the past, far-flung customers of the L.L. Bean mail-order company waited as long as nine days for their merchandise to arrive. This Christmas season, though, Bean will guarantee shipment of its maple syrup, Chamois Cloth shirts and other items in just four days via Federal Express for an extra $7.50. Says John Findlay, Bean's senior vice president: "There's too much at stake at this time of year to make our customers wait...