Word: pete
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...strong runner-up has emerged. California Governor Pete Wilson remained sidelined last week after the removal of a benign nodule from his right vocal cord and missed his staff's planned deadline to enter the race officially by Memorial Day. There is also internal strife: top Wilson aide George Gorton went on "vacation" after Wilson tapped former Bush aide Craig Fuller to run the campaign. Phil Gramm of Texas, still smarting from the disclosure of his R-rated movie endeavor in 1974, has watched his approval ratings stay flat even as he becomes better known. Meanwhile, former Tennessee Governor Lamar...
...many software developers are also uneasy about Microsoft's next big moment, for as Gates' influence steadily grows, their own role inevitably shrinks. They are reduced to writing second-string software, while Microsoft reserves the big programs for itself. Microsoft, as former WordPerfect executive Pete Peterson once put it, "is the fox that takes you across the river and then eats...
...possible later on. Most of their strategies are conventional. They assume the overwhelmingly conservative nature of the Republican nominating electorate and seek to capture the largest number of leftover ballots after Dole's presumed romps almost everywhere. But two of the candidates, Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter and California's Pete Wilson, are considering first-ever campaigns designed to reach well beyond the usual Republican franchise...
...same plan was put to Wilson several months ago by former G.O.P. national chairman Rich Bond (before he signed with Dole). "But we'd offer a twist," says a Wilson adviser. "Sending a message is fine, we'll say, but why waste your vote? Pete's the only moderate with a real chance of stopping Dole." "We'll nuke 'em if they try that," says Stone, pointing to Wilson's "multiple choice" record on abortion. "He used to favor government funding for abortions for poor women, but doesn't any longer, and twice when he was a Senator he cast...
...PETE WILSON Bid for G.O.P. White House nomination held owing to bum throat...