Word: peterson
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Head Coach Dave Peterson's Team USA squad has just completed a seven-game sweep of the Hockey East Conference, destroying the collegians by an average score...
This batch of Olympians has perhaps more international experince than any of its predecessors. Coach Peterson and General Manager Art Berglund have paired up to lead the U.S. entrants in the past three World Tournaments, and 20 of the Team USA players have skated under Peterson in the past. As Berglund says, "This is a team that won't be awed by the Soviets or the Czechs or the Canadians...
Tackling Leaders Player 1st Hit Assist Total Richard Mau 38 7 45 Bryan Gescuk 32 6 38 Kris Thabit 32 4 36 Don Peterson...
...Administration and Congress found some items to cut, though perhaps only expedient ones. Federal spending on nonmilitary research and development, after adjustment for inflation, has declined 25% from 1979 to 1986 while aid to schools has fallen 14%, notes former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson. Many economists have railed against these cuts because they have borrowed from America's future competitiveness and well-being. Wrote Peterson in an essay in the October Atlantic: "Unfortunately, since the future has no lobby . . . the Administration and Congress have found this the perfect place to demonstrate their budget-cutting zeal publicly even while allowing...
Control entitlements. Federal entitlement payments that are dished out to citizens regardless of their financial need rose from $200 billion in 1979 to $400 billion in 1986, observes former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson. Like many budget critics, Peterson advocates a so-called means test to make sure that such benefits as Social Security and Medicare go only to those who really need them. The number of senior citizens, for example, has grown significantly in recent years, but the group's poverty rate is edging downward (from 13.9% in 1978 to 12.4% last year). One type of means test would...