Word: gore
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...says a White House aide. He bought some new suits creased in the right places and a few camera-friendly ties. By mid-November Clinton had quietly asked White House chief of staff Mack McClarty to come up with a list of potential replacements. Working with Vice President Al Gore, he assembled the names...
Inman, who was at the top of Gore's list, had the advantage of having already been vetted by the White House last year as a potential CIA chief. At Gore's suggestion, the President invited Inman to the White House for a two- hour afterdinner chat about national-security issues. Though it wasn't intended as a job interview, it was enough to impress Clinton that he may have found his candidate. Not only was Inman a policy expert and a businessman with managerial experience, like Clinton he was a small-town boy from the South (East Texas...
...prompt entry into NATO. Zhirinovsky's past pledge to reincorporate Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania into Russia had leaders of the three Baltic republics huddling to shore up international support for their independence. As editorialists in the capitals of Western Europe and Asia warned of "dangerous fascism," Vice President Al Gore cast Zhirinovsky's views as "reprehensible and anathema to all freedom-loving people...
...rock band the Mothers of Invention, was in many ways the prisoner of his own raffish image: hirsute hippie freak; countercultural sire of prototypical Valley Girl Moon Unit Zappa and her siblings Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva; opinionated crank ("AIDS is a CIA plot"); and First Amendment scourge of Tipper Gore. With his death from prostate cancer, a few days short of his 53rd birthday, it may now be easier to appreciate an often overlooked fact about Francis Vincent Zappa: he was the most protean and adventurous American composer of his generation...
These are no longer theoretical problems. The once taboo topic of means testing -- linking government payments to income -- was debated at a recent high-level White House meeting. The President mostly listened, but proponents of some kind of limitation included Vice President Al Gore, Budget Director Leon Panetta and presidential counselor David Gergen. Their rationale: only by restraining entitlements can the Administration afford new programs and further deficit reduction. "Everyone agrees this is something to be looked at," confides a senior White House official. "Even a novice looking at the budget can't help seeing what's happening to entitlement...