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Yesterday at the McCormack Building in Boston, the Wilson committee questioned representatives from state agencies and energy utilities in the second of three scheduled days of informal public hearings. Topics discussed included the need to better train nuclear plant inspectors and to clarify responsibility for decision-making should a nuclear accident occur...
...nuclear plants are currently in operation in Massachusetts, the Pilgrim I plant in Plymouth and the Yankee plant in Rowe. Boston Edison is trying to gain licensing for a third, Pilgrim II, from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In addition to investigating the state's ability to prevent or, if necessary, cope with an accident at those plants, the Wilson Committee will also check precautions at plants on line or under construction in Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire...
...Wright of Texas is already bitterly denouncing the Federal Reserve for "pouring gasoline on a fire in a misguided effort to put it out." He argues that high interest itself is a cause of inflation because it increases the cost of buying a new home or constructing a new plant. Builders Union President Robert Georgine warned that President Carter's pledge to his workers to "not fight inflation with your jobs" would be recalled, perhaps vengefully, by blue-collar voters in next year's primaries. Carter's chief economic adviser Charles Schültze and Treasury Secretary...
...interviewed the executive at length, got DeLorean's personal papers and says that "anything of a substantive or controversial nature is either on tape or appears in John's handwritten notes. It's airtight." But DeLorean backed out of the project; he has started an auto plant in Northern Ireland and may want GM's help in securing parts and dealers. After years of frustration, Wright took out a $50,000 second mortgage on his house and published the book himself. The work is presented as DeLorean's first-person account, and he now says...
...excessive emphasis on cost cutting," he recalls, "produced an aberrant method of evaluating performance. At one time the assembly plant in Tarrytown, N.Y., year in and year out produced the poorest quality cars of all 22 GM U.S. assembly plants. In some instances, Tarrytown cars were so poorly built the dealers refused to accept them." Yet because of consistently low production costs, DeLorean contends, the plant manager got one of the highest bonuses among all GM managers...