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...drive to put computers in the classroom is apparently part of a plan by Soviet Party Boss Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the sluggish Soviet economy. Last year's growth in national income, the closest Soviet equivalent to gross national product, was a disappointing 2.6%, down from 3.1% in 1983 and only about half the size of the gains achieved in the 1960s. Many industries, including transportation and communications, are a decade or more behind the West in their use of computers, and that has retarded productivity increases. Moscow now seems to recognize that unless the Soviet Union produces...
...ballooned primarily because of design changes imposed by the Navy. But Veliotis says that most of the changes were requested by the company and that gross mismanagement was the real culprit. When he took over Electric Boat in 1977, he found the shipyard to be plagued by poor supervision, sluggish productivity and chronic absenteeism...
After ringing out 1984 with an ebullient growth spurt, the U.S. economy seems to have sobered up considerably at the start of 1985. The Commerce Department projected last week that the gross national product in the first quarter of the year will grow at a sluggish annual rate of 2.1%, less than half the 4.3% clip of the previous three months. The news about inflation, however, was less discouraging. Consumer prices rose in February at an annual rate of 4.2%, about the same moderate pace...
DELRAY BEACH, Fia-Ivan Lendit of Czechoslovakian shook off a sluggish start and Martina Navratilova began at a torrid pace as the two number one seeds powered their way yesterday into the third round of the $1.8 million Lipton International Players Championships tennis tournament...
...makers of champagne and its fizz-alikes were to assemble for a party this week, it would be a frothy scene indeed. Their business is enjoying cork-popping growth at a time when liquor, beer and table wines have sluggish or declining revenues. Sparkling-wine sales have bubbled up to $1.7 billion this year, 34% more than in 1983. Exports of French champagne to the U.S. this year grew at the same effervescent pace and exceeded 1 million cases for the first time. With New Year's Eve approaching, France's Moët-Hennessy two weeks...