Word: pete
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Junior setter Pete Buletza teamed with freshmen outside-hitter Ryan Oliver to form a potent combination. Buletza, reminiscent of a fiery King David with glaring red locks and scowl to match, combined timely spikes with precision setting...
...moments when we played well," Westendorf said. "But Pete was good consistently...
Sometimes it seems as if all the great sports heroes are dead or deadbeats or accused of killing somebody. Are Pete Rose, Mike Tyson or O.J. Simpson role models? Only if the role is on a TV mini-series. The list of troubled sports stars goes on and on. Tennis prodigy Jennifer Capriati's substance abuse. Incorrigible rebounder Dennis Rodman's hairstyling and discipline problems. And, of course, Tonya Harding. It all makes you wonder if there is any hope for sports heroism...
...ideals of local governance and part-time legislators (if you are a fan) or the social miseries of the 1920s and pollution of the 1970s (if you are not). Said Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic pollster: ``This is the opening debate over the radical Republican agenda.'' Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici's analysis was simultaneously more sanguine and more portentous: it might mark a change in ``how we define the role of the Federal Government in the next century...
...programs were fought over by multiple sparring congressional committees. Creative Governors like Engler, Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson and Massachusetts' William Weld, who have since been credited with operating ``laboratories of democracy,'' felt more like lab rats, constantly scurrying to Washington to procure federal waivers for any innovation. California's Pete Wilson and Florida's Lawton Chiles sued federal authorities for funds to pay for their immigration policies...