Word: environmentalist
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...popularity contest had won the popularity contest. He collected more votes than Bill Clinton ever did, more votes than any other Democrat in history. But like his father before him, he couldn't hold on to his home state, and that could cost him the race. The most fervent environmentalist in national politics was foiled by the Green Party; the guy who as a young Congressman made his name investigating tainted baby formula and influence peddling by the contact-lens industry lost because of a few thousand votes for a mischievous consumer advocate. Gore is the one who campaigned...
...popularity contest won the popularity contest. He collected more votes than Bill Clinton ever did, more votes than any other Democrat in history. But like his father before him, he couldn't hold on to his home state, and that could cost him the race. The most fervent environmentalist in national politics was foiled by the Green Party; the guy who as a young Congressman made his name investigating tainted baby formula and influence peddling by the contact-lens industry lost because of a few thousand votes for a mischievous consumer advocate. Gore is the one who campaigned as though...
Money talks--a lot louder than any environmentalist can. This was evident in your article about paving a 435-mile road through the Amazon rain forest [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 16]. Perhaps it is difficult for Brazil to look past the short-term economic gains of paving highway BR-163. But who are we Americans to criticize Brazil? Isn't opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development a key issue in the presidential campaign? We might destroy one of the few natural habitats that we have left. We Americans can't point a finger at Brazil if we exploit...
...Which Al Gore were you going to vote for, the environmentalist or the populist? Which George W. Bush, the tax-cutter or the anti-abortionist? Which Ralph Nader, the government reformer or the economic isolationist? Harry Browne makes it easy. A Libertarian government would hardly seem like government...
...until after the members meet early next year, ripples could be felt immediately in this year's presidential campaign. Al Gore, who adopted global warming as a pet project many years ago, may take the report's dire warnings to the trail, reflecting on his own record as an environmentalist and hammering his opponent's perceived weakness on the issue...