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...office to play in," says Agnew, suggesting that his days of hands-on running the company are over. GA Technologies is a very big thing to run: 1984 sales of $160 million and 1,800 employees. Filling 350 well-tended acres behind a high wire gate near La Jolla, Calif., the company resembles a little village, which, instead of a school, a church and a store, consists of a Fusion Building, Waste Yard Buildings and Experimental Area Buildings No. 1, No. 1Bunker...
...years, then, Harold Agnew's life tracked the atomic age--from Chicago to Los Alamos to Hiroshima to Los Alamos to La Jolla. His perspective on Hiroshima specifically is that a bomb had to be made...
Thank you, danke, grazie, merci, gracias for your excellent coverage of immigrants [SPECIAL ISSUE, July 8]. Variety is the spice of life; vive la différence! May this country continue to be the great melding place of the world's peoples. Patrick D. Bosold San Anselmo, Calif...
...located 28 miles south of Nashville and 563 miles away from the auto industry's epicenter in Detroit. The site is not as out of the way as it sounds. It is only about 30 miles from Smyrna, where Nissan builds cars and trucks, and some 30 miles from La Vergne, where Bridgestone makes tires. The success that these two Japanese companies have had in Tennessee reportedly impressed GM, as did the state's abundant electricity, favorable tax structure and productive labor force. Despite its fame as the home of Grand Ole Opry and Jack Daniel's whisky, Tennessee...
...once again struggling to bring their runaway economy under control. The government slashed the value of the controlled peso, which is used for the purchase of imports, by 20% in an effort to improve the country's trade balance. The new rate: 279 to the dollar. President Miguel de la Madrid and his Cabinet accepted 10% salary cuts, and a host of lower-level officials lost their jobs...