Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looming worldwide threat of global warming. Delegates had cajoled and harangued and reasoned with one another, trying to decide who would have to cut back, and how much, on pollutants that are heating the globe. By last Tuesday night, after a whirlwind 14-hour visit to Kyoto by Al Gore, the U.S.'s most prominent environmentalist, they were almost there. All the world's industrialized nations had agreed to firm targets for reducing six different "greenhouse" gases...
Organized by the online industry with prodding from the White House, the summit managed to draw an impressive and diverse array of pressure groups into its tent, as well as Al Gore, Janet Reno (both originally scheduled to speak on the day she was to announce whether he would be saddled with an independent prosecutor, much to the press's interest), sundry lesser Cabinet members, Congresspeople, lobbyists, academics and law-enforcement officials. All were united by a single goal: a genuine--if also, in many cases, self-interested--desire to protect kids. Missing were the kind of sparks...
...scaled by the Vice President, who told his audience with an approximation of forcefulness that "the solution that you're developing must be a solution that works." Advocating neither censorship nor license--and perhaps mindful of a recent New Yorker piece that claimed President Clinton is worried that Gore will fumble the New Democrat legacy--the V.P. suggested that the industry find "a third way, an American way." No skin off anyone's nose there...
...Gore was really speaking to, and in some ways for, the people who hope to make money from the Net. The commerce-minded don't want government regulation of cyberspace any more than the A.C.L.U. does, but they realize that the only way to turn the Internet into a genuine mass medium and make a real pile of money is to convince the public that it is a clean and well-lighted place. The industry's mantra has been "Patience! Technological refinements will soon be able to protect everyone's interests." This is why the summit opened with demos...
...values." And of course the core of the New Democrats happens to be Bill and Al. The White House went postal. Gephardt's chief of staff tried some pre-emptive spin with the White House, telling top adviser RAHM EMANUEL that Gephardt hadn't meant to criticize Clinton or Gore. Emanuel's reply: "I didn't get very good grades in college, but I'm not stupid...