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...boss has been around even longer. Owner Frank Thompson, 77, who has been selling cars for 57 years, still brown-bags his lunch every day and puts in 40-45 hours a week, remembers even darker days for dealers: the oil embargo in 1973. Having lived through tough times before, Thompson was ready this time. In July, when he began to notice "For Sale" signs seemingly reproducing on neighborhood lawns overnight and hearing new horror stories every day about people who were upside-down on their mortgages, Thompson put his Dodge salesmen on salary, so they wouldn't have...
...Then in September, Thompson cut his own salary 30% and slashed the rent the dealership pays him for the land he owns underneath the cars. "The sacrifice starts at the top," he said...
...week. But December's numbers are solid, he said, thanks in part to his deep roots in the community and solid ties to bankers. Compared to many dealers, Overland Park Jeep Dodge hasn't been troubled by lack of consumer credit. All of his 70 employees have safe jobs, Thompson declared...
...known him for over 30 years, and he's seen it all," said former governor James Thompson, whose powerhouse firm, Winston & Strawn, once represented the governor's campaign fund. "He's tough, and he knows Chicago...
...post-Watergate maverick politician, Quinn has long been viewed as a serious-minded, if eccentric, reformer. In his 30s, after graduating from Georgetown and Northwestern, he tried to amend the state constitution to allow residents to enact laws through referendums. He once urged people to inundate former governor James Thompson's office with 40,000 tea bags to beat back postelection pay hikes. These days, he draws attention to the cause of veterans by hosting a website called Operation Homefront. (Meanwhile, he slips into the funerals of soldiers almost unnoticed...