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...wedge of land stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana Mountains and harboring the thriving towns of Newport Beach (pop. 67,000), Costa Mesa (88,000) and Irvine (89,000). It includes a constellation of some 700 high-tech firms -- making Orange the U.S.'s fifth largest high-tech complex. Its economic output, according to Economist James Doti, is expected to reach about $50 billion this year, vs. $13.5 billion in 1975. The county's economy has grown twice as fast as the nation's in the 1980s. Last year alone, some 50,000 new jobs were created...
Whereas the original California Cooler was still the sales leader last year, big companies are crashing the party. California's Gallo, the largest winery in the world, is expected to take over the No. 1 position this year with its heavily advertised Bartles & Jaymes citrus cooler. Customers have been lured by its homespun TV ads, in which laconic Non-Actors Dave Rufkahr, an Oregon farmer, and Richard Maugg, a California contractor, portray the fictional characters of Frank Bartles and Ed Jaymes...
...Boswell, a California company that is one of the largest U.S. producers of cotton, may collect nearly $20 million in subsidies this year, according to a preliminary estimate by the Sacramento office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), which administers subsidies for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Salyer American, a Corcoran, Calif., cotton producer, may collect more than $3 million. As huge as these payments sound, Boswell insists that it might not turn a profit without them. "It is ludicrous to believe that we will be sticking any Government money in our pockets," says Boswell Spokesman Walter Brown...
...that's another question for another day. What is bothersome now is the growing use by employees in this country of drug-testing, of which the President's plan is but the latest example. Nearly one-quarter of America's largest private employers now require drug-testing of their employees, and the number is growing. And now Reagan wants the Federal government, the nation's single largest employer, to get into...
...contracts settled since April, the United Steelworkers has given wage- ) and-benefits concessions to LTV, Inland Steel, National Steel and Bethlehem, the third-largest manufacturer. National Steel's workers accepted a $1.50-an- hour cut, reducing hourly labor costs to $22.72, and LTV cut its costs by $3.60 an hour, to $22.60. USX negotiators have insisted that the firm needs a savings of at least $2 an hour, to about $23, to stay competitive. USX underscored that demand last week when it reported that second-quarter earnings had plummeted by 92%, to $14 million. A major factor was the firm...