schedules for the various stores.  These schedules recommended the hours of operation and the work force for each day of the week, taking into account normal customer traffic flows.  The schedules recommended a smaller work force for stores with lower sales volumes.  In most parts of the country, the schedules also recommended shorter hours of operation and correspondingly reduced labor expense in the winter months, when there is less highway traffic.


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In 1982 and 1983, the labor schedule with the smallest recommended work force was the October 28, 1982, winter schedule for stores having up to $5,000 per week in total sales.  That schedule recommended store hours of 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., seven days a week, staffed by the manager working sixty hours perhuman guardians including members of the Company staff. Victor Grego, one of the villains of the first book and the manager of the CZC, finds a Fuzzy in his private apartment in the Company tower, adopts him, names him Diamond, and become a firm supporter of the Fuzzies. This enables the Company to cooperate with the new planetary government headed up by naturalist Ben Rainsford and work with the Native Affairs Commission headed up by Jack Holloway. It becomes clear that criminals are using the irregular status of the government and of the Company to attack it and steal sunstones. With the help of the Fuzzies, the thieves are thwarted. There is also further exploration into the biology of the Fuzzies, and it is established that the Fuzzies