Word: pete
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THERE WERE THREE BUBBAS, TWO POOKIES, ONE Tookie, a Pork Chop, brothers Motorboat and Speedboat Jones, Ted Williams (no relation), Pete Rose (relation), an Evers, a Chance and a lot of stinkers. They came in sizes ridiculously large and incredibly small, ages old and older. They had worn the uniforms of the Brasschaat (Belgium) Braves and Melbourne (Australia) Monarchs. They gave up day jobs like stockbroker and bag boy and minister and fireman and even sportswriter. They all had the same dream, though, the same faint hope that they would appear in a major league box score for the first...
...mayhem begins in 1958, unfolding through the eyes and deeds of three men in their early 40s who have not yet learned that they are out-and-out psychopaths. Pete Bondurant is a former Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who now works for Howard Hughes; Pete's duties include overseeing the staffing of Hush-Hush, a scandal rag Hughes has bought for titillation and political smears, plus procuring drugs for and keeping process servers away from his billionaire boss. One day Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa, who is being hounded by the Senate's McClellan committee and chief counsel Robert Kennedy...
...enforcers off on a bizarre fictionalized trek through five years of U.S. history: the pursuit of Hoffa, the Mob's unhappiness over the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba and the loss of the Havana casino revenues, the 1960 presidential campaign, the long debacle of the Bay of Pigs. Pete, Kemper and Ward play hair-raising roles in all of this, and much more besides...
...Governor Pete Wilson, who might be Phil Gramm's vice president, has made an oppressive worker's compensation system more business-friendly, and has at least tried to tackle long term problems like the state budget and illegal immigration...
...presidential race got a little more crowded. Republican Patrick Buchanan, the pugnacious conservative commentator who gave George Bush a run for his money in the 1992 New Hampshire primary, announced his candidacy with a tough "America first" speech. And G.O.P. California Governor Pete Wilson, laying out his own conservative agenda, announced the formation of an exploratory committee. On the Democratic side, former Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey said he too was forming an exploratory committee--a potentially portentous move from the party's right that could complicate President Clinton's re-election strategy...