Word: gore
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...practiced last Monday night for his debate the next day with Ross Perot, the normally restrained Al Gore began to argue aggressively and gesture wildly with his hands. "I hate to say this to you," said the Vice President's old friend Tom Downey, "but you're a little too animated...
Feigning hurt, Gore asked, "So you'd like me to be a little more . . . wooden...
...debate that has now assumed mythic proportions, dwarf-slayer Al Gore routed Perot, diminishing his opponent's credibility by exposing the terrible hollowness at his core. While this may have negative repercussions for the 1996 election (Perot supporters tend to be disenchanted Republicans), Gore's performance enhanced his stature in Washington immeasurably...
...inaccuracies. He said, for example, that 85 million Mexicans live in poverty, when according to the last census Mexico's population is only 83 million. I also agree that the positive and negative impact of NAFTA on the U.S. economy was disproportionately assessed by both Ross Perot and Al Gore. Mexico's economy is too small (Mexico's GDP is only 4 percent of U.S. GDP) to have as enormous an effect on the U.S. economy and labor market as the two speakers implied...
...Tuesday November 9th, 1993, around 400 Harvard students gathered at the Forum of the John F. Kennedy School of Government to celebrate Professor John Kenneth Galbraith's 85th Birthday and watch the debate on NAFTA between Vice President Al Gore '69 and Ross Perot. After the debate, Galbraith commented on what has been the most widely seen event on cable TV's history. He criticized Perot's lack of coherence and the exaggeration of both debaters on the impact NAFTA would have in the U.S. economy...