Word: gore
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...Gore wanted to set up a chair for his late sister at the University of Tennessee. But he needed $500,000 to establish an endowment. Knight, who ran congressional offices for Gore, knew where to find it. In March, 1994, two days before the Energy Department granted $9 million in research funds to Molten Metal Technology, its chairman donated $50,000 to the Nancy Gore Hunger Chair of Excellence in Global Environmental Studies. Knight, then actively lobbying the department for what was a nine-fold increase in the grants, thanked Molten chairman Bill Haney in a March 14 letter, calling...
WASHINGTON: Lobbyist Peter Knight knows that sometimes the best way to get a politician's attention is by waving a checkbook. As Al Gore's money man, in 1996 he set the record for a one-night fund-raiser: $12.5 million...
...records obtained by TIME show that two companies for which Knight helped win big contracts at the Energy Department found a novel way of showing gratitude to the Vice President ? call it Gore's campus connection...
...Energy Department grants to Molten Metal eventually reached $33 million, money parceled out over three years over the objection of some government scientists. But the favorable treatment bestowed on the firm did not end there. Well-publicized plant visits by Gore and the department's environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm...
...some point between the January day in 1986 and Election Day of 1992, however, issues came to outweigh images. I remember jubilantly celebrating the triumph of the Democratic ticket, expecting with complete glee and naive (though still plausible) confidence that the newly-elected President Clinton and Vice President Gore, would occupy the White House for the next 16 years--well into the next millennium, which then seemed far away...