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FIREWORKS Those looking for sparks from greenhorn Fred Thompson during the Oct. 9 debate in Dearborn, Mich., were instead treated to a front-runners' spat over--of all things--the line-item veto...
...corrosion-engineering company with a strong research division, based in Dublin, Ohio. With 2006 revenues of $20.6 million--a $10 million increase over its 2003 sales--CCT had been courted by several suitors. DNV communications manager Svein Inge Leirgulen describes the deal as having "huge business potential." Neil Thompson--now CCT's chairman and chief officer, and a co-owner prior to the acquisition--suggests the allure was that CCT's onshore expertise would complement DNV's offshore business. Matcor's Schutt is also in the market to buy. "I look at a couple of companies a year...
Perhaps it takes a very rich person to ignore very small things. In a week in which most of us were concentrating on such snack-size fare as whether Fred Thompson stumbled in his first presidential debate or how many hours Joe Torre, the weary manager of the New York Yankees, has left on the job, Paul Allen was concerning himself with decidedly larger matters--life in the cosmos, to be exact...
...highly recommend the Warren Zevon song “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner...
Capt. Brandon Thompson, an intelligence officer at a combat outpost roughly 30 miles south of Baghdad, says the reports are plausible - but not proven. "I think it's very possible that individuals from Iran come in and train groups," says Thompson, an officer at Forward Operating Base Kalsu about 30 miles south of Baghdad. "But with no facts yet to back it up, the assessment would be that it's a good possibility...