Word: pete
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...country. The national press and academe, two subcultures where the level of interest in affirmative action is high, undertook the debate on the subject that had never occurred when affirmative action was quietly instituted by Executive Order back in 1965. Republican politicians--Dole, Newt Gingrich and California Governor Pete Wilson, who had just been re-elected on the strength of his support for the anti-illegal-alien Proposition 187 and was now launching a presidential campaign--became champions of abolishing affirmative action. Finally, President Clinton responded to the storm rising in California by ordering up a full-scale review...
Meanwhile, Pete Wilson's presidential campaign, in which affirmative action was a central issue, fizzled. And Dole's campaign, as it moved toward the nomination, moved away from the initiative. There seem to be three reasons...
...college hear of people going into brain-damaging comas from alcohol. The alcohol made you decorate the sidewalks and wake up with a headache. Pot merely gave you the munchies, guaranteeing employment for the pizza business. Legalize it, tax it and that will help to lower the deficit. PETE HANCE Fogelsville, Pennsylvania...
Texas Democratic Representative Pete Geren, who nominated Zamora, a constituent, for Annapolis, sees the case as "a horrible aberration" that should not change the academies' selection process. "There aren't too many accomplished people," he says, "able to hide such dark sides." That's what's so haunting about this case: if found guilty (attorneys say the pair will plead innocent), it will appear that the same determination that brought success in classrooms and on athletic fields led them to view Jones as just another obstacle to what they wanted, another obstacle to be removed...
Kennedy had the Cold War to spur a nation to action. We don't have that, but we can create a war on the educational front. California's Republican Gov. Pete Wilson this year implemented a law requiring elementary school classes to contain no more than 20 students; Clinton should do the same nationally. He should up the ante on science and math education, selling bonds to support funding just as if we were trying to best the Russians in space...