The new rail regulator, Tom Winsor, had been Swift's general counsel ( 1993 – 95 ), and adopted a more interventionist and aggressive regulatory approach.

Many of Tom Swift's fictional inventions either mirrored or presaged actual technological developments.

In his various incarnations, Tom Swift's adventures total over a hundred volumes that have been translated into numerous languages and published around the world.

Tom Swift's fictional inventions have directly inspired several actual inventions, among them Lee Felsenstein's " Tom Swift Terminal ", which " drove the creation of an early personal computer known as the Sol ", and the taser.

" Tom Swift's Ultrasonic Cycloplane is developed to break the sound barrier and fly by a different principle from traditional aircraft ; his jetmarine is developed to go deeper and faster and use an unusual type of propulsion.

* Tom Swift's New Camera, Ready for Space and Spies-about Clifford Ross, in the New York Times December 9, 2004.

Tom usually shares his adventures with close friend Ned Newton, who eventually becomes the Swift Construction Company's financial manager.

The younger Tom does not tinker with motorcycles ; his inventions and adventures extend from the center of the Earth ( in Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster ) to the bottom of the ocean ( in Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter ) to the moon ( in Tom Swift and the Race to Moon ) and, eventually, the outer solar system ( in Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express ).

Tom Swift, Jr .' s Cold War-era adventures and inventions are often motivated by patriotism, as Tom repeatedly defeats the evil agents of the fictional " Kranjovia " and " Brungaria ", the latter a place that critic Francis Molson describes as " a vaguely Eastern European country, which is strongly opposed to the Swifts and the U. S. Hence, the Swifts ' opposition to and competition with the Brungarians is both personal and patriotic.

" The books are slower-paced than the Tom Swift, Jr. adventures of the second series, and include realistic, colloquial dialogue.

The Tom Swift, Jr. adventures were Steve Wozniak's favorite reading as a boy and inspired him to become a scientist.

Tom Sr., unlike his own father, is still relatively young and vital at the time of Tom Jr .' s adventures and frequently assists his son from behind the scenes while operating the huge family business, Swift Enterprises.

* Bud Barclay — Tom's best friend, who accompanies Tom on all his adventures.

Tom embarks on a series of adventures and lessons, and enjoys the community of other water babies once he proves himself a moral creature.

She played Andrea, a masked avenger who fought crime in Metropolis and invited Clark Kent ( Tom Welling ) to join her in her adventures.

Large portions of the 1973 Tom Sawyer film was filmed at the Dalton Cut-Off, especially footage that featured shots of Tom and Huck's adventures on Missouri River.

The old James Kernan Theater was located on the east side of the block in 1924 and " once showed the spine-tingling adventures of Harry Carey and Tom Mix " while Kernan's wife, Ann, played the piano accompaniment.

Tom Clancy's Net Force is aimed at an adult audience, while the related series Net Force Explorers ( which follows the adventures of a teen auxiliary of the Net Force in 2025 ) is aimed at the older teen market.

Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favourite of King Arthur.

The earliest surviving text is a 40-page booklet printed in London for Thomas Langley in 1621 entitled The History of Tom Thumbe, the Little, for his small stature surnamed, King Arthur's Dwarfe: whose Life and adventures containe many strange and wonderfull accidents, published for the delight of merry Time-spenders.

Mulock adds material and in her adaptation, Tom has adventures that again involve swallowing ( by a miller and a salmon ), being imprisoned in a mousetrap, angering King Thunston and his queen, and finally dying from the poisonous breath of a spider.

Unlike Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Space Patrol was never featured in a daily or Sunday newspaper comic strip, nor was there a series of juvenile novels recounting Space Patrol adventures.

`` We no longer have Tom Moore's and Longfellow's ' heart for any fate ', either '', I said.

On July 14, 2005, Tom Biscardi, a long-time Bigfoot enthusiast and CEO of Searching for Bigfoot Inc., appeared on the Coast to Coast AM paranormal radio show and announced that he was " 98 % sure that his group will be able to capture a Bigfoot which they have been tracking in the Happy Camp, California area.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

In 1963, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contracted with Sib Tower 12 to have Jones and his staff produce new Tom and Jerry cartoons as well as a Television adaptation of all Tom and Jerry theatricals produced to that date.

Dewar dealt with the exams results fiasco and the lorry drivers ' strike, and attended the Labour party conference in Brighton in September, but at the end of September told the historian Tom Devine in Dublin that if there was no surge of the energy of old, he would have to reappraise the situation within a few months time.

However, focusing on this approach to defining euthanasia may also lead to counterexamples: such definitions may encompass killing a person suffering from an incurable disease for personal gain ( such as to claim an inheritance ), and commentators such as Tom Beauchamp & Arnold Davidson have argued that doing such would constitute " murder simpliciter " rather than euthanasia.

After the funeral, Charles and Tom have a discussion about whether hoping to find your " one true love " is just a futile effort, and ponder that, while their clique have always viewed themselves as proud-to-be-single, Gareth and Matthew had in fact been a " married " couple among them all the while.

Combined, these electronic devices have supplied many memorable keyboard sounds, such as the " growl " in " Tom Sawyer " and the melody featured in the chorus of " The Spirit of Radio ".

The American satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer has been rumored to have been the first to invent the gelatin shot in the 1950s while working for the National Security Agency, where he developed vodka gelatin as a way to circumvent a restriction of alcoholic beverages on base, but the claim that he was first is untrue.

In the opinion of his biographer Tom Frame, these have tended to obscure the many achievements of Holt's long and distinguished political career.

However, the elite Delta Force and other special operations units have fielded the HK416 in combat, and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has called for a " free and open competition " to determine whether the army should buy the HK416 or continue to purchase more M4 carbines.

Several prominent businesses in Bermuda have a clear Irish influence, such as the Irish Linen Shop, Tom Moore's Tavern and Flanagan's Irish Pub and Restaurant.

Both Tom Hall and John Romero have reputations as designers and idea men who have helped shape some of the key PC gaming titles of the 1990s.

Musicians appear frequently in key roles – John Lurie, Tom Waits, Gary Farmer, Youki Kudoh, RZA and Iggy Pop have featured in multiple Jarmusch films, while Joe Strummer and Screamin ' Jay Hawkins appear in Mystery Train and GZA, Jack and Meg White feature in Coffee and Cigarettes.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

In May 2010, Loach told Tom Lamont in an interview about the three films that have influenced him most: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde ( 1965 ) and Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ).

Under quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots have also compiled the longest winning streak consisting of regular season and playoff games in NFL history, a 21-game streak from October 2003 – October 2004.

The character-reforming influence of sport with which Coubertin was so impressed is more likely to have originated in the novel Tom Brown's School Days rather than exclusively in the ideas of Arnold himself.

She later marries Tom Paris, and they have a daughter Linnis ( named after Kes ' mother ).

Philosopher Tom Regan argues that animals have inherent value and moral rights as " subjects-of-a-life.

Michaels and Lampley were joined by analysts O. J. Simpson ( who would normally have been the second color commentator ) and Tom Landry.

The Pet Shop Boys, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs have recorded " The Second Threepenny Finale " under the title " What Keeps Mankind Alive?