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...year ending last August, compared with a 15.5% rate in March 1978. C. Roy McKinnon, 51, was assistant director of the FBI for administration, one of the highest posts at the bureau, when he quit. "Hell," he says, "the assistant special agent in charge at the smallest FBI field office was making the same as I was." Adds Robert L. Van Ness, 40, who resigned as director of the Energy Department's office of financial incentives in June: "It didn't make much sense to spend my most productive years depending on the whim of Congress for whatever...
...buying microchips from Japan to supplement its own chip production. Last February the company signed an agreement with Japan's Minolta to market one of that company's small copiers under the IBM label. The Minolta model sells for less than $3,500, while IBM's smallest copier costs at least...
...drive-in town; what was once America's largest shopping mall, up the street a very busy McDonald's and Burger King, down the road those big discount houses with name-brand stereos, $179.99 for two weeks only. It's near Rte. 128, and the very smallest computer firms start out here, in the brick office parks put up in the 50s. When they leave, different businesses move in to the treeless complexes. One parking lot has a dance studio, a musical instrument store...
...fact that San Francisco is one of only four major U.S. cities operating in the black. Last week she was able to announce a 10.4% increase in the city budget, allowing her to hire 91 badly needed policemen and 33 bus and streetcar workers. Still, the increase is the smallest in three years...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission. The eight-year-old body, smallest of the Government's health and safety agencies, with a staff of 900, keeps watch over some 15,000 consumer products. In the past four years, CPSC has banned the use of Tris, a cancer-causing flame retardant used in children's clothing, got companies to recall asbestos-insulated hair dryers and stopped the use of benzene in paint removers. The commission must be renewed by act of Congress before October, and the Administration is lobbying to either have it killed outright or buried in the generally...