Word: pete
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remain convinced that a balanced budget will also provide enormous benefits for students, as it will result in lower interest rates for future student loans," Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) says in a statement...
...Forbes is an amiable prophet, a genial man with a heartfelt belief that if America's entrepreneurial energies are unleashed, its families protected and its politicians chastened, everything will turn out O.K. This may be his most surprising contribution to the race: after a year in which Republicans like Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm tried to outworry each other on affirmative action, immigration and crime, along comes Forbes, who wipes the polarizing issues off the table. In their place is the Reaganesque liturgy of hope and opportunity: "You don't have to bash immigrants," says Forbes' former media...
...Forbes (tag line: Untested leadership. Risky ideas) just before the Iowa debate on Jan. 13, which may have been what inspired the others to go after Forbes instead of the front runner. "Dole's people were absolutely delighted with the debate," explains Craig Fuller, former campaign manager for Pete Wilson. "Forbes is helping Dole a lot by establishing a glass ceiling: Forbes and everybody else can see Dole, but they can't break through to touch him." The next morning the Des Moines Register proclaimed Dole the winner...
...fathered by adult males, many of whom do not stick around to support these infants. In California, which has the highest teen-pregnancy rate in the country and which pays out between $5 billion and $7 billion annually in state and federal aid to families begun by teens, Governor Pete Wilson has decided to make would-be statutory rapists think twice. Last summer he allocated $2.4 million to a pilot program for 16 counties to begin prosecuting men who engage in sex with underage girls, and this month Wilson pledged $6 million more for a statewide crackdown...
...Gore, who both have their eye on the presidential race in 2000, had come to be known among the Republicans as "the chaperons," as in "We could have gone further, but the chaperons were watching." This time the Republicans wanted to bring along the Budget chairmen, Kasich and Pete Domenici; for one thing, it would even up the players on each side, and more important, they were the best guys with numbers. But to the Republicans' fury, Gore vetoed the idea, and to their amazement, Clinton went along. That meant that during the key session, Gingrich, Armey and Dole would...