Word: gore
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...Fearful of an economic collapse that might once again bring to power a hostile, nuclear-armed totalitarian regime, the U.S. is trying to promote the responsible exploitation of the region's resources, in part through a series of agreements on trade and technology negotiated by U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. Argues Gore: "It is unlikely that you are going to see an area larger than the U.S. ruled off limits to forestry by a nation struggling for hard currency to make the transition to democracy and free markets. If that is so, doing...
Vice President Gore's answer is to send U.S. experts. Were U.S. involvement confined to sound environmental practices, American expertise might actually help. But U.S. initiatives are a tangle promoting contradictory programs: the U.S. is sponsoring a project to protect biodiversity in the Khor River watershed while at the same time giving grants to study the feasibility of logging in the region. Moreover, critics point out that the U.S. has a less than thrilling record preserving its own forests. The U.S. has less than 5% of its ancient forests and suffers from a timber shortage; Russia has roughly...
Garcia's influence spanned generations and social strata. This veteran of the counterculture had plenty of friends in high places. Vice President Al Gore gave the Garcia gang a White House tour, and Tipper Gore hung out backstage at a Dead concert. Bill Weld, Massachusetts' Republican Governor, last week wore a black armband in memory of his favorite guitarist. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont was a fan and a friend; last summer Leahy invited the Dead to the Senate Dining Room, where the band met that noted groupie Strom Thurmond. "Boy, Ah heah you're a rock star," the orange...
...clearly reminiscent, for instance, of Tipper Gore's campaign for warning labels on compact discs. Rather than admitting to censorship, they insist that increasing awareness of potential corrupters of children is the goal. The device is meant as a way to monitor viewing as more households are made up of working parents and television programming becomes more and more extensive...
...Gore's campaign for labeling albums shows, many of these so-called acts of "parental responsibility" simply create yet another forbidden fruit for children. The "cool" kids, the ones who buy the restricted CDs and sneak into R movies, will inevitably find their V chip and dismantle it, or change its level. The homes of the "cool" parents who do not use a V chip, or who set theirs to a lower level, will be sought as hangouts...