Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iacocca can understand why Wisconsin is called the Badger State. Its citizens and Governor Tommy Thompson have been in an uproar since Chrysler decided in January to shut down an 86-year-old assembly plant in Kenosha, which would put 5,500 employees out of work. Last week Iacocca offered a peace plan: a $20 million education-and-housing fund for the workers, to be financed by profits from new Chrysler vehicles sold in Wisconsin this year. Meeting with Thompson in Washington, Iacocca said he would consider keeping the plant open a few weeks or months longer than its planned...
...youngster under Thompson's tutelage, Rainey ran for the Atoms Track Club in Brooklyn, N.Y., for four years. She gave up the sport when she turned...
...Thompson said Rainey has the potential to qualify for the Olympic trials...
...capable of making the Olympic trials," Thompson said, "but she will never make it if her coach runs her like this...
...this kind of thing happened at Nebraska, everyone would say how crazy it is," said Thompson. "Why should it be any different at Harvard? This kind of thing is not supposed to come out of Harvard. We all look at Harvard differently. The thrust of a Harvard education is fulfilling one's potential, academically and athletically. It's abuse...