Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colony, too, would vote for independence. New York's men still awaited instructions from home, but they would not dissent. That left only Delaware stalemated?one delegate in favor, one opposed, and one back home on business. Bostonian John Hancock, President of the Congress, rapped his gavel. Secretary Charles Thomson began rereading the resolution aloud prior to a vote...
Finally, on July 4, the Congress adopted the Declaration and ordered it "authenticated" and printed. As President of the Congress, John Hancock signed the Declaration, and the congressional secretary, Charles Thomson, attested to his signature. Oddly, no member of the drafting committee seems to have gone along to John Dunlap's shop to supervise the printing?which accounts, perhaps, for the caprices of punctuation, capitalization and spelling that occur in the printed document. On July 5 and 6, the Declaration was sent out to all the colonies, and one copy was inserted into the Congress's "rough" (secret) journal...
...government plans to spend $23 billion on it over the next four years. Since France lacks the technological know-how for the job, Paris has turned to two foreign firms, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph and Sweden's LM Ericsson. Through a series of complex deals, Thomson-CSF, a big French electronics company (1975 sales: $2.7 billion), will acquire the French subsidiaries of ITT and Ericsson, thus gaining access to their technology and expertise. ITT and Ericsson, in turn, will receive big payments for their subsidiaries as well as large licensing and engineering fees. If Giscard...
...left field when Bobby Thomson hit his famous home...
Your reporter did, however, spell my name correctly. Sincerely yours, Samuel P. Huntington Thomson Professor of Government...