Word: thomson
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...threatened suspension is the result of a complicated and increasingly bitter dispute between the newspapers and their unruly production workers. Unauthorized work stoppages and slowdowns have cost the papers 12 million copies and $5.6 million so far this year. Infuriated, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization Ltd., which has owned the Sunday Times since 1959 and the Times since 1967, has forced a showdown. Thomson executives announced last April that they would give the unions until Nov. 30 to agree to sweeping reforms in work procedures, or else the papers would close down until they relented. All of Fleet Street...
...inflation, that could be called, in traditional terms, conservative. But the voters' antigovernment mood appeared more cautious than many prophets had predicted. The mood instead seemed quirky, dissatisfied, independent. While some notable liberals like Senator Dick Clark of Iowa were defeated, so were some right-wingers like Governor Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire, and in a few states, like Massachusetts, people voted for both sides at once. Worries about widespread apathy also seemed to be exaggerated, though people turned out to vote in somewhat smaller numbers than usual (see chart page...
Ultraconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., 66, has dominated New Hampshire politics for three successive terms. In league with powerful right-wing Publisher William Loeb, Thomson has kept the Granite State free of both a sales tax and a personal income tax, the only place in the nation where neither levy is imposed. But this year, shortly before the election, 80,000 utility bills were mailed out across the state with a special surtax to pay for the controversial Seabrook nuclear power plant. Thomson had refused to veto a bill prohibiting that special charge and was suddenly cast as a less...
...only comment is thank God that the Times is back," James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Fellowships, a Harvard program for professional journalists, said yesterday. "We never knew how much we needed it until it wasn't around," he added...
...discontent. Groups such as the highway lobby, medical associations, state employees and state contractors have provided King with $1.3 million of campaign boodle. His espousal of inflexible mandatory prison sentences, Proposition 13, the death penalty and anti-abortion legislation has earned King the support of New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thomson and the ubiquitous Howard Jarvis...