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...businessmen's plan was drawn up by GE's Jones for an earlier session of the Conference Board, a private research group. Many of its elements reflect conservative business thinking. Like the Carter transition staffs program, the Jones plan calls for $15 billion in tax cuts for individuals-but Jones would make them permanent, not temporary. That would tend to limit the size of the Federal Government in the future, by reducing the revenues available to start new social programs. To boost investment in new plant and equipment, the Jones plan also specifies an increase in the investment...
...controversy arose at a General Electric plant in Salem, Va., where seven women filed suit in 1972, charging that GE's refusal to grant disability benefits for pregnancy discriminated against female workers and thus violated Title VII. The company maintained that its policy had nothing to do with sex discrimination; GE said it just could not afford a disability insurance plan covering pregnancy...
...went to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, served in the Air Force, then joined General Electric and studied at Cincinnati's Xavier University for a degree in business administration. In 1966 Backe moved to Silver Burdett, the publishing arm of General Learning Corp., a joint venture of GE and Time Inc. By 1969 he had become president of General Learning, leaving it in 1973 to head up CBS's publishing group,* where he boosted sales from $150 million to $207 million in three years...
...Democratic Southern Governors attracting Northern industries caused something of a political backlash. Recalls South Carolina's Fritz Rollings of his term (1959-63) as Governor: "After four years I had filled up the state with industry. Then I looked around and they were all Republicans. When you bring in GE and Westinghouse, you get the jobs, but then you see that politics follows the jobs...
...General Electric on a Teamster-like pact-which is regarded by Ford Administration economists as being barely within the limits of inflationary tolerance. One of four unions bargaining with Westinghouse struck last week, but chances are strong that the Westinghouse workers will soon settle for a pact close to GE's. And economists note with relief that dozens of contracts reached so far in the construction industry average first year wage-and-benefit boosts of only...