Word: pete
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...welfare. In the past year, about 40 states have reduced or frozen benefits, and many have tightened eligibility requirements. Among them, Michigan and Ohio have cut off all payments to 170,000 recipients of general assistance, which provides aid to impoverished single adults, and California Governor Pete Wilson has proposed to reduce AFDC payments as much...
...University of California, Berkeley, are fanning out to describe the world in their own funky Fodor's series, THE BERKELEY GUIDES. The free-wheeling new guides offer warnings about beaches that "suck" and restaurants that are "yucko." The guides are printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink. Sniffs Pete Deemer, publishing director of the Harvard series: "Theirs may be more environmentally friendly, but ours won't get thrown out as much...
...Angeles authorities were still booking the last of some 16,900 people arrested for riot-related crimes. California Governor Pete Wilson signed a special law giving them more time. Under existing law, which specified that they had to be arraigned within 48 hours of arrest, thousands would have had to be allowed to walk free. In the city, as nationally, the air was filled with recriminations, mostly over charges that the police had been slow to mobilize to contain the riot -- in fact had pulled out after the first confrontations and, lacking a contingency plan, taken a disastrously long time...
Where have all the folk singers gone? Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger and Tom Chapin have been making records for little tykes. Next: Judy Collins' Amazing Grades...
Other law-enforcement units were also slow to react. Though California Governor Pete Wilson deployed about 2,000 National Guard troops on Wednesday evening, it took almost 24 hours for the extra men to reach the streets. They were followed by hundreds of California highway patrolmen on loan from other parts of the state. By the time President Bush dispatched 4,500 federal troops to the area at week's end, the violence had largely abated...