In July 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, in the context of the outing of his press aide Pete Williams, dismissed the idea that gays posed a security risk as " a bit of an old chestnut " in testimony before the House Budget Committee.

Past concerts have featured such notable artists as Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Chris Ethridge, Spooner Oldham, John Molo, Jack Royerton, Gib Guilbeau, Counting Crows, Bob Warford, Rosie Flores, David Lowery, Barry & Holly Tashian, George Tomsco, Jann Browne, Lucinda Williams, Polly Parsons, The " Road Mangler "- Phil Kaufman, Ben Fong-Torres, Victoria Williams & Mark Olson, Sid Griffin, as well as a variety of many other bands that had played over the 2 or 3 day event.

Other people who have been outed include Fannie Flagg, Pete Williams, Chastity Bono, and Richard Chamberlain.

Signorile argues that the outing of journalist Pete Williams " and its aftermath did indeed make a big dent in the military's policy against gays.

He followed this by naming former Eagles receiving great Pete Retzlaff as General Manager and Jerry Williams as coach.

With a team consisting of many stellar young rookies such as Rubén Sierra, Pete Incaviglia, Mitch Williams, Bobby Witt, and Edwin Correa, the Rangers finished the season 2nd place with an outstanding 87 – 75 record, just five games behind the division champion California Angels.

Some of the most in-demand orchestrators today ( and of the past 30 years ) include Jeff Atmajian, Pete Anthony & Brad Dechter ( James Newton Howard, Christoper Young, John Powell, Hans Zimmer ), Conrad Pope ( John Williams ), Eddie Karam ( John Williams ), Tony Blondal ( Rolfe Kent, Henry Jackman, Chris Young, Ramin Djawadi et al.

* Pete Williams, NBC News correspondent, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

* Robert Pete Williams ( 1914 – 1980 ), blues musician

Other city officials are: City Manager, Robert Garza ; Assistant City Manager / Chief Operating Officer, Brian Denmark ; Assistant City Manager / Chief Administrative Officer, Mark Winson ; Director of Communications, Udell Vigil ; City Attorney, Harry " Pete " Connelly ; Police Chief, Richard Williams ; Fire Chief, Travis Brown.

" Big " Jim Paterson ( trombone ), Geoff " JB " Blythe ( saxophone, previously of Geno Washington's Ram Jam Band ), Steve " Babyface " Spooner ( alto saxophone ), Pete Saunders ( keyboard ), Pete Williams ( bass ) and Bobby " Jnr " Ward ( drums ) formed the first line-up of the band to record a single, " Dance Stance " ( 1979 ).

* December 31 – Robert Pete Williams ( 66 ), blues singer and guitarist

Pete Williams wrote a program called ungeek. pl that automatically decoded a geek code into the English definitions.

Notable UFC fighters to emerge in this era include Hall of Famers Mark Coleman, Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Matt Hughes and Tito Ortiz, as well as notables Vitor Belfort, Mark Kerr, Pedro Rizzo, Murilo Bustamante, Pat Miletich, Frank Shamrock, Mikey Burnett, Jeremy Horn, Pete Williams, Jens Pulver, Evan Tanner, Andrei Arlovski and Wanderlei Silva, among others.

Ex-Dexys members Pete Williams ( bass ), Geoff Blythe ( tenor sax ), Steve Spooner ( alto sax ), Stoker ( drums ), and Mick Talbot ( keyboards ) engaged the services of manager Dave Corke, a previous manager of Dexys Midnight Runners, and promoted concerts in Birmingham to raise money to finance the group.

Some of the package's contents were shown, albeit copied from the originals and edited for profanity, on the April 18 edition of NBC Nightly News, with anchor Brian Williams and NBC chief justice correspondent Pete Williams ( no relation to Brian ) examining the package's contents in the opening moments of the broadcast.

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Senator Harrison " Pete " Williams ( D-NJ ) was indicted on October 30, 1980 and convicted on May 1, 1981 on nine counts of bribery and conspiracy to use his office to aid in business ventures.

Her other notable screen roles included Academy Award-nominated performances in Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, You're a Big Boy Now, Pete ' n ' Tillie, Woody Allen's Interiors, and The Pope of Greenwich Village.

In addition to Affleck, the video featured Robin Williams, Don Cheadle, Harrison Ford, Hynden Walch, Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Benji Madden and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte, Dicky Barrett, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Lance Bass, Dominic Monaghan, Meat Loaf, Pete Wentz, Joan Jett, Huey Lewis, Perry Farrell, Macy Gray, Rebecca Romijn, Josh Groban, Jessica DiCicco, and unnamed choir singers as recording booth singers, along with Brad Pitt as a delivery man.

Many underground artists, notably Vaughn Bode, Dan O ' Neill, Gilbert Shelton and Art Spiegelman went on to draw comic strips for magazines such as Playboy, National Lampoon and Pete Millar's CARtoons.

C. H. " Ham " Light, a business partner of Pete Spence and a friend to the Cowboys, heard the first two shots from his room at the Aztec House across the corner from the fight, and went to the window in time to see all but the first two shots fired.

The final round also went the full seven games, with the deciding game played in the St. Pete Times Forum on June 7, 2004.

Ruiz faced Otis Tisdale on 10 / 13 / 07 and ended the fight with a TKO victory in the 2nd round as referee Pete Podgorski called a halt to the bout as Tisdale went down for the third time.

Pete Buchanan from the 1977 team went on to play college football at Notre Dame.

Clapton agreed, " after Pete Townshend and I went to see him play, I thought that was it, the game was up for all of us, we may as well pack it in.

In 1920, he went undefeated in 10 fights, but then, he lost by a knockout in 17 to former World Bantamweight Champion Pete Herman, who outweighed Wilde by more than a stone ( 14 pounds ), in 1921.

The same day, they went to a local music store and given his choice of instruments, Pete chose the clarinet ( after first wanting the drums, which his father declined per the doctor's orders ).

The California legislature went on to approve medical marijuana bills by State Senator Milton Marks and Assemblyman John Vasconcellos, but they were vetoed by Governor Pete Wilson.

Mel Galley toured one last time after Pete Goalby left to sing for Uriah Heep in 1981, then went on to play for Whitesnake, leaving Trapeze disbanded by late 1982.

Pete Fender subsequently went on to form Rubella Ballet with Gem Stone ( bass ) and Sid Ation ( drums ) who was later also in Flux of Pink Indians.

He reached the final in 1999, where he lost to Pete Sampras, and went on to reach the final again in 2001 and 2002, where both times he lost to Lleyton Hewitt.

The series theme by composers Mike Post and Pete Carpenter was released as a single and went to # 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining on the chart for 16 weeks.

In 2007, there was a major shake-up of the Braves broadcasters: Don Sutton departed to be the full-time broadcaster with the Washington Nationals, Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren went to the Braves Radio Network full time, and Joe Simpson signed with Fox Broadcasting Company to be a color analyst on FSN South and Sports South, and also signed to call a limited schedule of games on TBS with Chip.

He went on to play fretless bass with a healthy number of high-profile artists that include David Gilmour, Tears for Fears, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Joan Armatrading, Phil Collins, Chaka Khan and Don Henley.

They both later teamed up with Pete Waterman, and they went from small independent labels to the major RCA, producing a myriad of hits.

Greg once said of his friend: " Pete went to law school in Barbados ; he failed the Bar eight times.

He then went to the Phillies, where he rejoined ex-teammates Pete Rose and Tony Pérez.

' Pete Grey stood up and went to throw a ' 42 ' grenade and he was shot by a sniper in his right forearm.

Marcus Thurston joined the band as second guitarist, Darayus Kaye took over bass duties and Pete Newdeck went on drums.

Pete Seeger's band the Weavers went from a hit record with " Wimoweh " to being blacklisted and finding no work.

Then he and I, our chief mechanic Pete Kerr and two other mechanics went down to Kyalami for testing before the South African GP.

Winters went on to a Pete Smith movie short, in a scene of her coming down a slide to the grass, where a black Scottie dog licked her face.

After a brief stint as a pitching coach for the Cincinnati Reds under Pete Rose, he went on to became a sportscaster and for the next 22 years called games for the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins.