Word: gore
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...Report "donor servicing." In a new twist last year, the Clinton-Gore campaign invited donors to the White House, onto Air Force One and into other sacred public spaces for coffee. It wasn't what their lawyers called "fund raising"; they called it "donor servicing." Hence we need instant disclosure of all meetings between donors and public officials. Reports must be sent to the FEC in a timely manner. Critics will say this measure will impede the business of government in America. My rejoinder: not legitimate business...
Vice President Al Gore called J.P.L. shortly after the landing to congratulate the controllers. President Clinton issued a statement hailing the occasion in more formal tones. "Our return to Mars today," he declared, "marks the beginning of a new era in the nation's space-exploration program...
Shortly before 7 P.M., as most Washingtonians staked out picnic areas on the Mall ahead of the capital's annual fireworks display, Vice President Al Gore logged on to a computer in his home to view some pyrotechnics of the digital kind. Gore had been following Pathfinder's progress all day. And now he was seeing the first images, sent by E-mail to a few top officials before they were made public. The color mosaic of the rocky Martian landscape as seen from Pathfinder so excited Gore that he rushed back to his White House office after the fireworks...
...What a wonderful way to celebrate the Fourth of July," he said in an interview with TIME the next morning. Pathfinder's mission could hold invaluable lessons for mankind's own survival, added Gore. "If life disappeared there, then why? If life still exists there, then what lessons does it hold for us? We need to learn more about the mysteries of evolution." He noted that the landing comes not long after the stunning discovery that life may once have existed on Mars. "And that makes Pathfinder and these 10 missions even more important and timely than we could have...
...fundamental focus of these missions, said Gore, is Earth--how to live and survive here better. As Pathfinder and subsequent missions unfold, he said, "we are likely to experience an emotional and spiritual impact not unlike the one which accompanied that first picture of Earth rising from the moon's horizon a generation...