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Sandwiched between the working sessions, the black-tie dinners and dances, the council members hold informal press conferences-sometimes too informal. For example, David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard, who enjoys the hostelry's liquid assets, made an expletive re-pleted attack on Energy Czar James Schlesinger 18 months ago that left his colleagues goggle-eyed...
...practitioners of a parascience, the authors are rightly humble about confusing their models with immutable truths. They may not have the lively journalistic bounce of an Alvin Toffler or the fluid drive of a Vance Packard, but Social Standing's scholarship adds some fascinating discriminations. For example, though money is the basic yardstick people use to rank themselves, income is only a component of status, not its cause. Education is the prime means to higher income - which is then translated into higher status. But schooling that does not lead to a high-paying job earns few points...
Monolithic Memories Corp. has a standing order for wafer sorters and probe-card repair technicians; meanwhile, the company is turning down orders for lack of workers. Synerteck needs ion implanters, who manipulate control panels to change the electrical properties of silicon. Fairchild Camera and Hewlett-Packard both have hundreds of positions available that cut across every level of skill. Avantek has an eye out for janitors interested in profit sharing...
...being converted into owner-occupied condominiums, thus removing them from the rental market, or condominiums are being built and sold at high prices to realize a quick return on investment. Says Howard Ruby, chairman of R. & B. Development Co. in Los Angeles: "Rents are still too low." Daniel Packard, an executive with Mayer Construction Co., which last year built 40% of the apartments in Southern California, predicts that his company may go out of the apartment business by 1980. Says he: "It's now costing us $28,000 to construct a single apartment...
...relies primarily on taxes to force conservation by raising the cost of fuel to consumers. To many executives, that is wrongheaded reliance on Government fiat. The emphasis, they think, should be put on increasing production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by granting energy companies more incentives. David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., a maker of measuring instruments, says with a snort that Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who put the program together, "doesn't have the brains God granted a goose about the way the economic system is supposed to work...