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...appointment of Howard Baker could turn out to be an important first step. To be sure, Reagan took it well past the eleventh hour. He had been under pressure from old friends, Republican allies and his wife to fire Donald Regan as chief of staff ever since the Iran-contra affair broke. Still, Reagan clung to his abrasive, autocratic chief of staff until after the Tower report came out. By comparison with the unsparing criticism directed at almost everyone else, Regan actually got off rather lightly: the commission found no evidence that he had played any significant part in planning...
...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...
...eleventh hour compromise last week prevented a Barnard College clerical union from going on strike and ended bargaining battles over salary increases and the preservation of workers' benefits from a recently expired contract...
...depressing trade numbers have long threatened to drive the U.S. and some of its best friends into a slugging match. Just two days after the President spoke on Capitol Hill, negotiators for the U.S. and the twelve- member European Community reached an eleventh-hour compromise that narrowly averted a major international trade war. Last March the E.C. effectively cut off some $400 million in U.S. grain exports to Spain after that country entered the Community. Unless adequate compensation was provided, the U.S. said, it would impose crippling 200% duties at 12:01 a.m. last Friday on such Community exports...
...confident these achievements will continue under my successor, who will be the eleventh publisher of TIME. A native of Los Angeles, Miller earned an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School before joining the controller's office at Time Inc. in 1974. By 1983, when Miller became publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, he was, at 34, one of the youngest ever named to that position at any of the company's magazines. Says Miller of his new assignment: "I'm honored and excited to have the opportunity to work with many of the best people in the magazine business...