Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole and Gingrich have maintained to advance these budget bills. It's something the Democrats never achieved." The Senate package revamps Medicare, Medicaid and various other programs, slowing federal spending by $1 trillion over seven years while providing some $245 billion in tax relief. What next? Vice President Al Gore told Larry King last night: "It will be vetoed in a flash." Despite such bravado, Tumulty notes, congressional Democrats have little faith in the President's commitment to stave off Republican demands when a compromise bill is worked out later this fall...
...battered Democrats have awakened to the political advantage of forming a Praetorian Guard around Mother Earth. Though Clinton has been accused of being just pale green, especially after he retreated in 1993 from imposing new grazing fees on federal lands, the White House has got the message. Al Gore, a best-selling conservationist, two weeks ago denounced Republicans on the Hill for a "jihad against the environment'' that had allowed lobbyists from "the biggest polluters in America'' to rewrite environmental law. And Clinton has threatened to veto any provisions to permit oil drilling in the Arctic refuge...
...host of the crowded cocktail party that is his memoir, Gore Vidal is mostly on his best behavior. He seldom scandalizes his guests and rarely flings a martini into anyone's face. Courtly but gossipy, chummy but not overfamiliar, he proudly points out all the notables he has managed to attract to his soirae. Yet, while there is a good deal of pleasurable ogling to be had, Vidal's book is the sort of grand, teeming affair that leaves you feeling vaguely unsatisfied, as though you are not quite sure why he invited you in the first place...
Vidal is snobby about his roots. He was raised in prewar Washington in the seigneurial home of his grandfather Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind Senator from Oklahoma (Vice President Al Gore is his cousin). Vidal's mother was a histrionic alcoholic, so early on he retreated into the world of books and language. He attended the exclusive St. Albans prep school and served as first mate on a supply ship during World War II, after which, at age 20, he published his first novel, Williwaw...
Even a Democrat-controlled, Al Gore-inspired Congress would shrink from passing draconian emissions-control measures. And the current Republican House and Senate are unlikely to consider such regulations no matter how many scientists are convinced that global warming is real. Other industrial nations probably won't do much better, and poor countries can't afford to try. A more realistic strategy, some scientists argue, is to spend what research money there is figuring out how best to deal with global warming when it comes. It's already too late, they say, to do much else...