Word: gore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIPPER GORE (left, and 25 lbs. lighter, right...
...Gore '69 and his White House staff have set about reinventing government, the Republicans, a scattered group, are attempting to reinvent themselves. They know that in 1992, Bill Clinton did not receive an over-whelming mandate from the American people on the power of his campaign goals (an idea that the media took up with relish in the post-election period, but have since abandoned in their growing disdain for the White House...
When Clinton and his environmentalist sidekick, Al Gore, took office, they were already well aware that America's ecology was in crisis. From the spotted owls and salmon in the Northwest to woodpeckers and salamanders in the Southeast, many species were on the brink of extinction, and the implications were ominous. Says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, architect of the Administration's natural-resource policy: "This really isn't about just preserving strange species with incomprehensible names. In every single case, that species is the warning light about the decline in productivity of an ecosystem." In the past, the debate...
...options and prepared a decision memorandum analyzing them for the President. In the margins of the document, which had fewer than 50 pages, Clinton scribbled, "Let's discuss" beside various options. White House sources say the decision was Clinton's alone, though he discussed it with Vice President Gore over their regular Thursday lunch in the President's dining room. Clinton chose option nine -- also known as "the efficiency option" -- which focused on watersheds as the basic building blocks of the , ecosystem and reflected the growing importance assigned to fish...
...political-action committee, Democrats for the '80s, was at first derisively called PamPAC, but Harriman persevered. She was host of a series of "issues evenings," at which policy analysts and Senate candidates shared ideas and presidential hopefuls were featured as speakers. Among her favorites were Al Gore, Jay Rockefeller and Bill Clinton. Democratic donors ponied up $1,000 a place for the privilege of being part of the party. In the process, she raised close to $12 million and won the right to be taken seriously. Diane Sawyer recalls that as late stayers gossiped in corners, Pamela would still...