Word: thomson
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...South African government eased its policy in the 1970s, and allowed some blacks passports. In 1972, James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said he would refuse to accept any South Africans as Niemans if the government continued to prohibit black journalists from participating...
...Stephen Thomson...
...Park Thomson, former secretary to retired House Speaker Carl Albert, to testify for five hours before a closed session of the committee. Clearly, Jaworski was determined to get to the bottom of the scandal, which could implicate scores of present and former Congressmen as well as the South Korean government...
Faced with a potential $25 million deficit, conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. and the two houses of the legislature all seek to balance the budget. They cannot get together on how to do it. Thomson, who was re-elected last year on a no-new-taxes promise, has repeatedly refused to consider any significant tax increase. The house at first agreed and approved a budget with across-the-board spending cuts, no new taxes needed. The senate killed it. Then the house passed a budget that would avoid the cuts by raising new taxes, one of them...
Hailing themselves as "the silent majority," the demonstrators included blue-collar workers-utility employees, electricians, plumbers-and their families from throughout the Northeast. Some had spent up to twelve hours in chartered buses to attend the rally. They were greeted by New Hampshire's Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., who called them "beautiful" compared with "what I saw the first of May." The protest, organized by a pro-Seabrook group named the New Hampshire Voice of Energy, may be only the first in behalf of the facility. Vowed Daniel Tenchara, a 41-year-old pipefitter from Westport, Mass...