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Other than that, their repeated attempts to sign a front line pitcher (most recently,) Pete Harnisch of the Houston Astros) fell through. Give Jays GM Pat Gillick time, though. He always seems to have some major trade his sleeve...

Author: By Mike E. Ginsberg, | Title: Baseball is Back | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

Princeton regained its winning form this weekend after a 66-55 loss to Penn on January 29. The Tigers still stand second in the League with a 4-1 Ivy record, and Pete Carril's squad looks to have rebounded from its disappointing 7-7 Ivy finish last season...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Briggs Fix-Up Due | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Indeed, the seemingly unthinkable has happened. California--once big and bad and strapping--has been transformed into the object of national pity. Poor Pete Wilson! As governor, he has now lived through fires, earthquakes, droughts, floods, riots, and recessions. As Wilson's press secretary Dan Schnur said, "We've had just about all of the plagues--all except frogs and boils...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: Alive and Well in California | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

Folk legend Pete Seeger set words from the Book of Ecclesiastes to music, and the Byrds' version became a huge early hippie hit. In the ad it segued into "Hi, I'm Nancy, an operator here at TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just in Case You Hadn't Heard -- the '60s Are Over | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...news he has heard is bad. Broken freeways and the busted utilities cost a tremendous amount of money. The quake closed down 150 public schools, and there are worries about insurance coverage. It is a fact that 60% of the city's homeowners did not carry any. California Governor Pete Wilson has sent Clinton his estimated bill: between $15 billion and $30 billion. The latter amount would tie the quake with Hurricane Andrew as the most expensive disaster in American history. Wilson asked Clinton to pick up the entire tab, waiving laws requiring that state and local governments chip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Tales of the City | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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