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...Faster, Quicker, Stronger...
Despite the low cadence at the end of the race, the Crimson turned in the fastest time of the day, six seconds quicker than the nearest competitor...
...helpful as they are, however, computers are not creative -- at least not yet. Lertola still does all preliminary doodles with a pencil. What the computer does, he says, is "get artwork ready for printing a lot quicker than two years ago." On paper or on the computer, Lertola has been designing graphics for most sections of TIME since 1983, but his special fascination is with things scientific. He has been called upon to diagram such arcana as Halley's comet and the human immune system...
...more point about Gorbachev. I compare him to Khrushchev. Khrushchev was not well educated, but he was smarter than Gorbachev and quicker than Gorbachev. But Khrushchev had a fatal weakness. He was rash. Gorbachev is not rash, but he does have a temper...
...reflects the growing peril of runaway borrowing. Last year 68,112 U.S. firms filed for bankruptcy vs. 10,622 in 1981. And the failures are getting larger. The assets of bankrupt companies totaled $67 billion in 1989, up 52% from the previous year. The 1990 pace could be even quicker. Since January the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert (assets: $3.6 billion) and , the U.S. retailing arm of Canada's Campeau Corp. ($9 billion) have sought protection from creditors. They joined such major companies as Eastern Air Lines and LTV Corp., the third largest U.S. steel company, which had earlier...