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...state, creating an affiliate that has joined forces with Bechtel Enterprises to build and operate power plants in 17 states from Oregon to Florida. "In no way, shape or form are we moving away from electric generation as part of our business," says PG&E president Robert Glynn Jr. "We've transformed what years ago was a utility company focused on northern and central California into a national and what is beginning to be a global energy company...
...from outside the normal political channels--and those are the channels where Dole has spent his whole career. Prop. 209 is really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively pushing it, without much success...
...went on for about 21 hours, from roughly 11 a.m. on April 29 to almost 8 a.m. on the 30th. Pilots flew for 10 to 15 hours straight; each trip took about 40 minutes in the air and 10 to 15 minutes on the ground loading up. Marine Captain Glynn Hodges landed at the embassy in midafternoon; his H-53 chopper was too big to perch on the roof, so it came down in the compound. "My troops couldn't believe the scene," says Hodges. "People were climbing fences. It was bedlam. We were afraid of the crowds...
Into that climate comes the West Coast ballot measure, called the California Civil Rights Initiative. The brainchild of two academics, Thomas Wood and Glynn Custred, it would forbid the state to use race or gender preferences in employment policies, admissions or awarding contracts. Affirmative action has deteriorated into ``ethnic bean counting,'' says Wood...
Prior to working for the World Trade Center, Glynn was a deputy welfare commissioner credited with creating the state's Employment and Training Program...