Word: gore
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...JERUSALEM, commemorations of the Holocaust took many shapes. In the U.S. capital President Clinton, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel and 8,000 guests -- including a few hundred who were spared in the death camps -- listened as survivor Elie Wiesel dedicated a Holocaust Memorial Museum. In Poland Vice President Al Gore honored the memory of resistance fighters killed in the Warsaw Uprising 50 years ago last week. Jerusalem received a most unexpected visitor: Martin Bormann, son of the Hitler aide of the same name, came to pay tribute at that city's Holocaust memorial. There were discordant notes as well. In Washington...
...Clinton managed to do what the Republicans couldn't accomplish in a full year of campaigning: make George Bush's environmental record almost look respectable. First the new Administration let operations begin at an Ohio hazardous-waste incinerator -- the world's largest -- that both Clinton and Vice President Al Gore had opposed during campaign swings through the state. Then the White House backed away from a plan to help preserve vast stretches of public land in Western states by raising fees and tightening rules for ranchers, miners and loggers who use federal resources. It even cut the proposed budget...
...initiatives, the global-warming plan will be much more controversial and tougher to carry out. It calls for a rollback of greenhouse- gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The announcement represents a major victory for Gore, whose support for the measure met resistance at the last minute from Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary. They argued that the effects of emissions controls on U.S. industry had not been studied sufficiently, a position reminiscent of the one the Bush Administration took last year when it torpedoed a similar plan at the Earth Summit...
...Though Gore has prevailed for now, the debates within the Administration may be just beginning. As with health-care reform, the President put forward the bold outline of a plan and ordered his staff to figure out how to accomplish it -- in this case, by August. We'll give you the details, he was saying, when we work them...
...says Alden Meyer, a climate-change expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Meyer suggests a host of | conservation measures, including tougher auto-fuel-economy standards, increased use of nonfossil energy sources (such as solar and wind power) and investment in energy-efficient technologies. This recalls a theme that Gore struck again and again on the campaign trail and that Clinton echoed in his speech last week: sound environmental policies can be good business. "These investments ((in energy-efficient technologies)) will create tens of thousands of new jobs," Clinton promised. "And they will save tens of thousands more...