Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairman Burton think that whenever White House people discuss that golden Asian connection to the Clinton-Gore campaign, they lapse into Pidgin English, reminiscent of the language that G.I.s in Korea employed to palaver with shoeshine boys and barmaids? Maybe committee investigators were told to keep their eyes out for a tape on which Bruce Lindsey says to Maria Hsia, a fund raiser prosecutors considered generous to a fault, "Listen, missy, you tell Charlie Trie boss needs money chop-chop...
...still the economy, stupid. Now that things are going well, AL GORE is determined to make sure he gets some of the credit--whether the opportunity arises in announcing seemingly every favorable economic statistic that comes out or in his speeches, starting with one this week at the Detroit Economic Club. But Gore may not always want to be inseparable from the economy. If the Millennium Bug sparks a recession, as various economists predict, Republicans aim to remind voters that the high-tech Veep who popularized the term "information superhighway"will have had eight years in which to tackle...
...clueless and irrelevant bureaucrats, now has his own team of spin cyclists whirring into high gear. Redmond's roster boasts ex-Republican National Committee chairman and renowned spinmeister Haley Barbour, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Webber (a Newt Gingrich confidant) and former New Jersey Congressman Tom Downey (an Al Gore confidant). Edelman Worldwide, in the person of Reagan-era imagemaker Mike Deaver, is handling the company's overall Washington p.r. effort...
...tchotchkes in a Middle Eastern market will recognize the pattern: Arafat demands Israeli withdrawal from 30 percent of the West Bank; Netanyahu offers 9 percent; the U.S. suggests 13 percent; Arafat reluctantly agrees. Today, Netanyahu announced he might meet Arafat "halfway" at 11 percent. You do the math; Al Gore won't -- he stressed repeatedly that he was here for Israel's birthday party, not as a peace negotiator...
...Gore is behaving like a man running for president who is out to win Jewish votes and contributions," says TIME Jerusalem correspondent Eric Silver. Similar concerns may lie behind Netanyahu's stonewalling. "He's trying to avoid breaking up his coalition, which includes parties that don't want to give up any land at all," says Silver. The likelihood of any progress at next week's peace talks in London now depends on whether Washington is prepared to put the screws on Netanyahu. The chances of that? Well, this is an election year...