Word: pete
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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California "If I ask, Should we bail out Wall Street?, you won't get 1 in 50 of my constituents to say yes," says Pete Stark, the Democratic Congressman from the Fremont area. "They don't want their tax money to pay for this." And so he voted against the measure. "Fremont has one of the highest foreclosure rates in California, and unemployment is high. I think their feeling is, Why should you be bailing out Wall Street when we know people who can't afford junior college tuition? They see the Wall Street giants as extremely rich people very...
...McCain has powerful allies and former staffers who run much of the GOP establishment, from the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (which used to be run by his son Andy McCain) to the state house and senate, where moderate Republicans like outgoing senate president Tim Bee and Tucson representative Pete Hershberger have been able to push through much of their agenda by working with Democrats...
...whatever the past feats of amateur competitors, when the competition started around 3 p.m. during a brief pause in the rain, it quickly became clear that two registered competitive eaters—Pete “Pretty Boy” Davikos, a nationally-ranked professional eater from Boston, and Mike J. Springer, a recent graduate of Boston College—would dwarf all challengers...
...Visible "If your superiors don't see you or know who you are, you're very easy to let go," he says. That means showing up early and leaving late. (This is the Sneaky Pete School of Management, though. It's fine to arrive five minutes earlier than your boss and leave 10 minutes later.) Skip the two-hour lunches, and go to all those boring meetings...
...condescending. If you weren't with him, you were obviously wrong," Smith says. And McCain sometimes approached debate the way he approached boxing as a midshipman, throwing wild haymakers until someone went down. He has offended the clubby Senate with his sailor's mouth, cursing at Pete Domenici of New Mexico over pork, John Cornyn of Texas over immigration and even the Mormon Orrin Hatch of Utah over judges. During McCain's campaign to normalize relations with Vietnam, he nearly came to blows with Charles Grassley of Iowa. Smith served on a tanker in the Gulf of Tonkin...