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Even so, Gorbachev's ambitious plan to infuse his economy with U.S. commercial vigor will face deep-rooted obstacles. Many Americans believe that helping strengthen the Soviet Union could damage U.S. interests. And because of Western security concerns, many U.S. commercial technologies will remain off limits to ventures with the Soviets. The Paris-based Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, for example, restricts exports of equipment and processes to the East bloc that might be used in military applications. Under COCOM rules, Western firms cannot do business with the Soviet Union in such areas as nuclear energy, high-speed computers...
...states the group's weary leader, G. Raymond Carlson. Understandably so. The double-barreled embarrassment involving Bakker and Swaggart, the Assemblies' two most visible evangelists, has unforgettably tarnished preparations for the denomination's 75th anniversary next year. But so far the damage has been controllable, testimony to the extraordinary vigor of the Assemblies...
Harvard had the momentum going into the second half, but Temple began this half with the same vigor it showed in the opening minutes. Once again the Owls dominated early. The Crimson tried to come back, but never could...
...succeeded beyond his greatest expectations. A local boy who made really good, he traded his apron for a doctor's smock at medical school, eventually joined Merck and by 1986 had become the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer. Under the spell of Vagelos' visionary vigor, the company has recovered from a tepid performance in the early 1980s to become the world's No. 1 prescription drugmaker. Though many Americans probably could not name a single Merck product, especially since its Sucrets sore-throat lozenge and Calgon bubble- bath brands were sold in 1977, physicians and pharmacists...
...rising. Some small-scale private enterprise is now legal, and state industries will soon have wide new freedoms. Even Gorbachev concedes that his regime's true test will be whether it can produce better food, clothing and shelter for its citizens. No leader has said that with such vigor and conviction since Nikita Khrushchev a quarter-century...