Word: gore
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...approval would be granted, and was alarmed to hear later that he had portrayed himself to potential investors as having some sort of official U.S. backing. Later that fall, after Tamraz sent the D.N.C. a check for $50,000, he asked for a meeting with Vice President Gore. Heslin argued that it would not serve U.S. foreign policy interests for Tamraz to meet with the President or Vice President; White House officials said last week that no meeting took place...
...targets of government wrath in American industry, none have been scorched more severely or more often than U.S. tobacco companies. But despite being hit with everything from health-warning labels to smoking bans in buildings to Vice President Al Gore's tale last year of his sister's fatal lung cancer, cigarette makers have survived and prospered. The industry's profits have been healthy for a decade, and in spite of countless lawsuits, no tobacco company has ever paid out a single penny to compensate anyone for damaged health...
...selling of cigarettes to children. For example, the Administration strongly backs new Food and Drug Administration rules that require smokers up to the age of 27 to show photo ID cards when buying cigarettes. (The regulations bar tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 18.) Said Vice President Gore, who greeted the Liggett deal as a breath of fresh air in a smoke-filled room: "It's about time the tobacco companies told the American people the truth...
Wedding gifts aren't considered campaign contributions, which is just as well for the second family. Karenna Gore, 23, has become engaged to Andrew Schiff, a Manhattan doctor. Karenna's father-in-law-elect is a Republican, but her betrothed supports the home team. No juicy details of how they met have been released, but the happy nuptials are in November...
BEIJING: Vice President Al Gore began a four-day visit to China with soft words and poetry straight from Foggy Bottom, as he prepared to meet President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng in hopes of building a productive rapport with Deng?s successors. "The landscape of U.S.-China relations is filled with many rivers,? Gore intoned, ?some flowing together, others flowing apart. Such variety befits the interaction of two great nations and civilizations." Translation: the Administration believes it can make more progress with the Chinese on tough political issues such as human rights in private one-on-one meetings...