Word: thompson
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...hard and really worked hard tonight," Cornell coach Scott Thompson said. "We're turning the ball over way too many times, and we're trying to do what...
Nevertheless, the outcry prompted Governor Tommy Thompson to appoint a special panel of child-care providers, elected officials and policymakers to reconsider the co-pay provisions. Last week, on its recommendation, Wisconsin revised the plan. Day-care co-payments will be calculated primarily according to income and number of children, not the cost of care. And a family's co-payment obligation will be capped at 16% of gross income. To help close the spending gap between this formula and the earlier one, Thompson will use an extra $25 million in federal money for 1997 that the state had earned...
...Patty Loveless The Trouble with the Truth (Epic). The title may imply some kind of emotional hesitancy, but this hardscrabble country diva has no trouble whatsoever singing about betrayal, abuse, loneliness--and the against-all-odds will to survive. Her versions of nifty dirges by Gary Nicholson, Richard Thompson and Matraca Berg are less interpretations than rites of down-home exorcism...
...just finished reading Mark Thompson's report on the crash of the F-15 in Germany and the U.S. Air Force's decision to court-martial Technical Sergeants Thomas Mueller and William Campbell, both mechanics, for the death of pilot Major Donald Lowry Jr. [NATION, Dec. 2]. It is truly incredible that the Air Force pursued these two men, when in essence it was the Air Force itself that took no steps to fix the flight-control rods so they could not be misconnected and to warn mechanics of the problem. This was a double tragedy; the suicide of Mueller...
...group receives official recognition from University Hall, it will be eligible to receive funding from the Undergraduate Council and turn over profits to next year's members, Thompson said...