Word: thompson
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...overwhelming.“We started taking some risks, playing more aggressively on offense,” Ludwick said. “It started to work but it was too little, too late to have any impact on the outcome.”Byrd and freshman Alex Thompson each scored two goals for Harvard. Brown junior Mike Gartner tore up the Crimson defense to the tune of three goals and three drawn ejections. The loss was Harvard’s third straight against the Bears. HARVARD 13, FORDHAM 10After being plagued by slow starts throughout its season, the Crimson came...
...told Stemberg that health-care reform was not on his agenda. Meanwhile, religious groups and health-care advocates were pushing their solution: a liberal universal-health-care ballot initiative that would raise taxes. And the picture was about to get significantly worse: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson was threatening to take away $385million a year in Medicaid money. The more the Governor thought about health care, the more intrigued he became by the idea of making it work better...
...question of how to pay for the plan. Part of the money could be shifted from the existing $1.1billion fund through which hospitals had been compensated for the care they were providing the uninsured. But to fund universal coverage, they desperately needed to persuade HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to allow Massachusetts to keep the $385million in Medicaid funds that Washington was threatening to take away. The money would also give them leverage back home with health-care providers and businesses, two powerful constituencies and potential opponents of reform...
Their talks with Thompson went right down to the wire. The HHS Secretary signed the deal in a marathon negotiation with Romney and Kennedy that ended on Jan. 26, 2005, his last day on the job, while his going-away party was getting under way. The agreement stipulated that the commonwealth could keep the money but only if it passed a universal-coverage...
...their hands when emcees ask for Republicans in the crowd. A "Republicans for Obama" website has 11 state chapters with 146 members. An August University of Iowa even found Obama running third in the state among Republican candidates, behind Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani but ahead of both Fred Thompson and John McCain. And a national Gallup poll this month also found that nearly as many Republicans like Obama - 39% - than the 43% that dislike him, compared with the 78% of Republicans who held an unfavorable opinion of Hillary Clinton...