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...mostly controlled by family clans, and setting even small patches of it aside has proved problematic in the past. In the early 1990s, the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy tried to survey land in Pohnpei for a proposed watershed-management plan. "We almost got macheted to death," says Bill Raynor, who moved to Pohnpei from California 30 years ago and helped establish the Conservancy's presence in Micronesia. "None of us wants to walk out to the communities with a finished plan produced by university experts. That's not the way to go here in Micronesia...
...mecca for big-mountain skiing since the early 1990s, when Emily Coombs and her late husband Doug, two of America's most experienced backcountry adventurers, started Valdez Heli-Ski Guides (VHSG), valdezheliskiguides.com. They sold the company to its current owner, seasoned heli-ski guide and avalanche forecaster Scott Raynor, in 2000. (See the best travel gadgets...
...drain that budget hawks focus on, with costs averaging $10,000 per employee (about $6,000 for singles and $14,000 for those supporting a family). "I expect that by January, the number of people without health insurance will rise above 50 million as companies scale back," says Bruce Raynor, president of Unite Here, a labor union that represents half a million workers in a variety of industries. (Read "Putting Health Care on an Energy Diet...
...Democratic leadership, I'm surprised at,"Bruce Raynor, president of UNITE Here, a textile and service employees union, told reporters on a conference call opposing the Peru bill this week. "I think they failed to remember that in the last election many Democrats were elected to the House and Senate on the issue of failed trade policy...
...first round of the BSA presidential elections last April, Adjah and Zachary D. Raynor ’05 tied with 63 votes apiece. But an outgoing board member claimed that his fellow officers had improperly counted ballots to prevent Raynor from winning outright. Mired in controversy, the group held two more votes—both of which yielded wide margins in Adjah’s favor...