Word: pete
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...party. A cadre of conservatives led by Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia argued hat the so-called freeze should be applied more evenly across the board to defense is well as domestic spending. In addition, lamented Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico, "even with a freeze, you've still got a big deficit problem out there." Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole insisted that food stamps and health programs could be cut no further and rejected Reagan's proposal to impose a stand-by tax of about $50 billion...
...post of Secretary of Transportation. "I feel like Nathan Hale," said he. "I regret that I have but one wife to give to my country's infrastructure." But he may have a challenger for the title of life of the party: California's new Senator, Pete Wilson, 49, who took on James Watt, the aggressive Interior Secretary. "He's off making a science-fiction sequel to E.T., "said Wilson. "It's called Raiders of the Last Park...
Dinneen and the other senior Co-Captain, Geordie Lemmon at number five, blanked their Tiger rivals, giving the Crimson a 2-0 lead and a confidence boost. Soon after that, Boyum and Jernigan upped the Harvard lead to four, and looked as if sophomore Pete Dinneen would cap a Harvard victory after only the first five matches. He led his Tiger counterpart two games to none, only to lose the next three...
News of Baker's possible retirement sent a quiver through ambitious Republicans. Among those mentioned to succeed Baker as G.O.P. Senate leader in 1985: Dole, Lugar, Pete Domenici (New Mexico) and Senate Whip Ted Stevens (Alaska). In Tennessee the most likely contenders for Baker's Senate seat are Congressman Albert Gore Jr. and Governor Alexander...
...What element of the 49ers' story has to do with drugs? "Drugs are an element of every story today," Walsh says quietly, and he wonders if age and money haven't more to do with it than football. N.F.L. coaches are perplexed by the pervasive subject. Commissioner Pete Rozelle's longstanding line that professional football players have no greater drug problem than does society has been amended lately to read perhaps they do. Probably the most respected disciplinarian in the league, the Miami Dolphins' Don Shula, keeps seeing one old star after another...