Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate's approval of President Clinton's deficit reduction plan last week sure looked like a close shave: a 49-49 tie with Vice President Al Gore '69 casting the deciding vote. It doesn't get much closer than that...
Other Overseers whose terms ended in 1993 are Andrew F. Brimmer, Al Gore '69 and Jerome B. Wiesner...
...confrontation eased dramatically in May, when the sugar farmers, as part of an "environmental peace proposal," put their lawsuits on hold and agreed to pay for some of the cleanup costs. Perhaps it was the election of Clinton and Gore -- and the elevation of Browner to the EPA -- that changed their mind. Maybe they feared that they were losing the public relations battle and that their federal agricultural subsidies might be at risk. Or maybe they sincerely saw the need for compromise. Says Robert Buker Jr., a senior vice president at U.S. Sugar: "You can't shut down farming...
Most of the movie eschews overt violence for its much more satisfying alternative -- the threat of violence. The guts and gore are seen mostly in the viewer's lurid imagination. That is why Jurassic Park slips so neatly into its PG-13 rating. "I do think this movie is inappropriate for children under 13," Spielberg says. "In general, though, I think children are more traumatized by violence that can be re-created in a natural setting: a movie about child abuse or a movie about murder. This is a movie that not only can't happen, but can't even...
...took that responsibility [to the overseers] very seriously and wanted to attend his last meeting," said Marla Romash, Gore's communications director...