Word: gore
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Vice President Gore launched a new Administration charge today against GOP plans to balance the budget by 2002, saying Republicans would face a "rendezvous with reality" when voters come to understand the impact of proposed cuts in Medicare and scores of other programs. "I predict they're going to experience a number of conversions within their ranks," he said, "especially among those running for re-election next year." House Speaker Newt Gingrich, noting that Gore offered no alternative budget-balancing plan, accused the White House of "taking a walk" on the issue...
...make these judgments about Specter's speaking ability (or lack there of) with no reference to my political disagreements with him. Although I find President Clinton and Vice-President Gore '69 to be quite evil, I will readily grant that they are well-spoken and sharp--just like Satan in Paradise Lost. It is with no small pleasure that I report that the same compliments cannot be paid to Senator Specter...
...last few years, [the choices] have been very political," Huang said. She cited last year's pairing of Class Day speaker Lani Guinier and Commencement speaker Al Gore '69 and the previous year's duo of Class Day speaker Marian Wright Edelman and Commencement speaker Colin S. Powell...
...WHENEVER A FRIEND SUCCEEDS, a little something in me dies," Gore Vidal once said, pretty much covering the subject of envy in a single line. Now Martin Amis has milked the topic for an entire novel. The Information (Harmony; 374 pages; $24) is just appearing in the U.S., two months after its publication in Britain. With it trails a controversy that has kept the London book world jawing for months...
...Gore used to wear Earth Shoes? The Vice President told TIME that he cannot remember whether or not he ever had a pair...