Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington Correspondents Anne Constable and Dick Thompson saw the drug crisis through the eyes of politicians, interest groups and legal and medical specialists. Constable found a "sincere desire to end drug abuse and the desperate feeling that Government will never be able to do it." On the street, Thompson discovered another side of the story. Says he: "When I interviewed heroin and cocaine addicts in Baltimore, I saw first-hand that there is a core group of drug abusers who may be ignored by the popular concern over drug abuse: ignored except as object lessons...
...Food Security Act of 1985, the farm bill passed by Congress last December, have given new meaning to the term. Even as thousands of farmers struggle to make ends meet, some affluent growers will reap multimillion-dollar federal subsidies for this year's crops. These farmers, says Robert Thompson, Assistant Agriculture Secretary for Economics, "may get looked upon as the welfare queens...
...they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst in which Howard's human sweetie (Lea Thompson) discovers a condom in his wallet, snuggles up and asks, "You think I might find love in the animal kingdom?" More fastidious viewers are advised to purchase a Daffy Duck videocassette...
Leading Edge, however, is by no means the least expensive of the IBM- compatibles. That distinction goes to a group of 100 or so plucky manufacturers, 60% of them Asian, that produce machines with typical price tags of less than $600. Carrying obscure labels such as Thompson, Harriman & Edward, Computer Dynamics and American Mitac, these firms' products are called no-names by the industry because they have virtually no name recognition. Despite the pejorative description, computer experts suggest that the no-names may pose the greatest threat to IBM. Says Margaret Rodenberg, a vice president at Entre Computer Centers...
...string catcher, named Boomer, is divorced by his wife during the game over the bullpen phone. He, by the way, is played by Peter Fox '72, an alumnus of the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society. The pitching corps consists of Frito (Bobby DiCicco), a Bruce Springsteen-loving Hispanic; Duke (Wesley Thompson), a self-proclaimed persecuted Black; Moose (Vince Lucchesi), an over-the-hill knuckler; Ripper (Artie Gerunda), a Harvard educated alcoholic; and Tank (Eddie Frierson), a not-too-swift minded hurler...