Word: thompson
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...beat his Republican rival Ronald W. Potvin in a landslide on Nov. 3 with 88 percent of the vote. He won the September primary with 48.7 percent of the vote, more than 20 percentage points higher than his closest rival and almost 30 points higher than incumbent Alvin E. Thompson...
...Blame it on 2MRC, the nation's primary military sizing mechanism," explains TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "2MRC is the requirement that calls for the military to be prepared to fight two wars?at the same time." The doctrine has stayed in place, Cold War or not, and it is one of the major reasons why the military budget -- now targeted at $1.4 trillion over the next five years -- remains? so massive. 2MRC requires maintaining a certain level of equipment and personnel -- all of which costs more and more each year. Until the basic doctrine is reassessed -- and "President Clinton...
...Reported by William Dowell/U.N., Scott MacLeod/Amman and Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...Mark Thompson. With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington
...William Sears and Lynda Thompson, authors of The A.D.D. Book (Little, Brown), believe Ritalin can be helpful but urge parents to explore behavior-modification strategies such as neurofeedback. "Medication is never the only answer," they write. "Nor is it a cure." In mid-December, Hazelden/Rosen will be publishing Ritalin: Its Use and Abuse, a guidebook for teenagers. The author, Eileen Beal, writes that Ritalin can be quite helpful, but that there are problems that go with the territory, such as the pressure to share the medicine with classmates...