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...that sentence down to the one key phrase that contains, for Gore, the essence of the whole idea. Then he arranges the fragment on his desk among the other scraps of paper--seeds of thought, if you will--already lying there. "You just pray nobody sneezes," says Carol Browner, who rose from Gore's staff to become head of the Environmental Protection Agency. After the idea has ripened on his desk, he will hand a bewildered aide a piece of confetti holding some mysterious term--"digital earth" or "distributed intelligence"--and say, "Schedule some time. I want to talk...
...firm to manage the vice- presidential campaign for Gore. After the election, he became deputy director of personnel for the transition, helping salt Gore loyalists throughout the federal bureaucracy and playing a role in the appointments of top officials like Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, EPA Administrator Carol Browner and Assistant Energy Secretary Tom Grumbly...
When Knight returned to his firm, the Gore connection paid off. His portfolio of clients bulged with companies wanting a leg up with Gore or his allies. Telecommunication firms lined up to see Hundt; environmental companies came with pleadings for Browner and Grumbly. In short order, Knight was the top-billing partner at the firm, routinely grossing a seven-figure sum. At a firm in which, as a former partner put it, "you eat what you kill"--that is, you pocket everything after deducting your expenses and a share of the firm's overhead--Knight had hit pay dirt...
...Grum-bly of the Energy Department to attend the plant's ribbon-cutting ceremony, at which he touted the firm and suggested it could qualify for up to $200 million in grants from his department. When Molten sought equal billing with incinerators as a cleanup method for toxic waste, Browner met with the company's top executives and later signed off on a regulatory classification, rare for a process not yet in full commercial operation. It was Knight, congressional investigators say, who helped land a $460,000 Energy Department contract to demonstrate Molten's technology at a government laboratory. Most...
...President's decision to support Browner is a major victory for the EPA chief, but the new regulations still face a challenge by Congress. Many Republicans and some Democrats have vowed to pass a law overturning them. Support for the EPA crosses party lines: Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York announced last week that he'd fight any attempt to weaken the rules. And even if Congress passes legislation to overturn the rules, opponents would probably be unable to muster enough votes to override a presidential veto...