Word: thompson
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...wrong side of the bed for four more. I can only pray that by November we will stir from our sentimental slumber long enough to elect a President who has the vision and intelligence to lead us in the world in which we actually live. Kevin Thompson, Maplewood...
...Democracy is bigger than any one person.' WILLIAM C. THOMPSON JR., New York City comptroller, decrying the prospect that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will push for a change in city law to run for a third term. Thompson plans to run for mayor...
...wouldn't be the first time a big project was held hostage by hard-line tactics, critics say. Palin's administration revoked ExxonMobil's leases of Point Thompson, a giant North Slope oil and gas field, for failing to put the area into production over three decades. Palin chided the company for "warehousing" 8 trillion cubic feet of gas. A state judge upheld the state action but said ExxonMobil and its partners should be given another chance to prove themselves. In February 2008 the company submitted a $1.3 billion plan calling for production...
...have to endure a lot of teasing about your name when you were growing up? Dee Thompson, ATLANTA...
...biggest one-word comment. No one is going to help me if I have problems with my company. Especially considering the huge amounts of money these companies were paying themselves, it's really obscene." Another St. Helena resident, Paul Tuttle, a registered Republican, peppered his Representative, Democrat Mike Thompson, with anti-bailout e-mail. "I think it was bad legislation," says Tuttle. "You're socializing risk. It's like creating the U.S.S.R. under the U.S. flag." Thompson voted against the measure. Says Tuttle: "We have a perfectly valid branch, the FDIC, there to take care of problem banks. Let them...