Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MINNEAPOLIS: Talk about reinventing government. Al Gore wants to put seniors to work in the fight against Medicare fraud by "deputizing" them -- paying folks whose anonymous tips help the government recover ill-gotten funds from criminal providers...
...town to do it in. "Texas is the perfect place for a push like this. Hispanics have become a formidable voting bloc," says Branegan. Plus -- and of course this will sound cynical -- Houston is the hometown of one Governor George W. Bush, the front-runner to take on Al Gore...
Clinton's China policy was largely inherited from George Bush. In 1989, as part of a sanctions package meant to punish Beijing for the massacre of students in Tiananmen Square, Senator Al Gore sponsored legislation barring U.S.-made satellites from being launched on Chinese rockets--unless the President declared such a launch to be in the national interest. Under pressure from American corporations desperate to get their satellites into orbit, Bush issued nine such waivers between 1989 and 1992--and Gore denounced him as "an incurable patsy." But after Clinton was elected President, he came under the same pressure from...
...Even during the cold war, only professional smugglers suffered harsh criminal penalties. And White House officials insist the waiver did not get Loral entirely off the hook. If no criminal charges are brought, the Commerce Department could still impose stiff penalties. But since Clinton always has his eye on Gore's 2000 campaign--and Schwartz remains a go-to guy for the Democrats--nobody expects that to happen. And that little piece of Washington reality is more pungent than anything Johnny Chung and Liu Chaoying ever cooked...
That's why Baxter and his colleagues are betting that the public will be more excited by yesterday's heroic tomorrow than today's more jaundiced one. Given that the nation's most prominent exemplar of earnest, old-fashioned futurism is Al Gore, it's not a bad wager...