Word: thomson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rupert Thomson's five novels have earned him the status of a cult figure, at least in the British press, but the London-based author, 44, now seems to be bidding for a somewhat more remunerative title, as in "best seller." Thomson's sixth novel, The Book of Revelation (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), ought to widen considerably the circle of his readership on both sides of the Atlantic. His new book, like its predecessors, conveys bizarre, surrealistic events with understated, laconic precision, but the principal subject this time out is that fail-safe crowd pleaser, kinky...
...took three years for astronomers to test this theory by measuring how the sun shifted light coming from a star. The results were announced at a meeting of the Royal Society in London presided over by J.J. Thomson, who in 1897 had discovered the electron. After glancing up at the society's grand portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, Thomson told the assemblage, "Our conceptions of the fabric of the universe must be fundamentally altered." The headline in the next day's Times of London read: "Revolution in Science... Newtonian Ideas Overthrown." The New York Times, back when it knew...
...sounded like someone was trying to knock down Annenberg," added Elli Thomson...
...Government Department has suffered the loss of several scholars in recent years, including the departure of former senior faculty member Morris P. Fiorina, who left his post as Thomson professor of government to take a tenured position at Stanford last year...
...online trading households in the U.S., which totaled 4.3 million in 1998, is expected to pass 20.3 million in 2003. And while the average online investor is 39, the average person investing with a traditional broker is 52. That age gap is what finally got to Merrill. Says Thomson: "We had to look around and ask, 'Are we going to inherit the children of our clients automatically, or are we going to have to put up our dukes and start fighting...