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Just bringing up the logging issue with locals unleashes an attack on environmentalists and owls alike. Bob Bray, 46, a gas station attendant who lives in Forks, says if it wasn't for the logging industry there would be no community. "People outside Forks use the owl as an excuse to limit logging." Bray told me this past summer. "If it wasn't the owl it would be something else...
Given all this malaise, there seems little chance for any substantial improvement in the job picture soon. Joseph Jannotta, chairman of Jannotta, Bray, a leading Chicago-based outplacement firm, estimates that fewer than 25% of U.S. companies have completed the task of downsizing their work forces. As the process rolls on, he says, the average firm could eliminate as much as 25% of its current payroll. That means the U.S. could face up to five more years of job losses at the searing rate of 375,000 a year. "We still have whole functional divisions disappearing within a business," Jannotta...
Ndokanda, a bangombe pygmy, hunkers down beside me. Holding the bridge of his nose, he lets out a loud bray -- his dead-on imitation of the cry of small rain-forest animals called duikers. These deerlike creatures make the noise in the throes of giving birth, and Pygmies imitate it because other duikers come running when they hear the call. This time, however, the braying attracts a large band of chimpanzees, drawn by the prospect of dining on vulnerable duikers. For a moment I feel the shiver of being hunted...
Sources close to the negotiations say thatDavid M. Bray, executive dean for administrationat Harvard Medical School and the only man on themanagement bargaining team, engages in suchheavy-handed tactics and is a major obstacle to anagreement...
...Bray was an hour late for today's negotiatingsession, according to sources close to thenegotiations. He was more than 30 minutes late fora two-hour session on Monday...