Word: gore
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...Tree, a Rock, a Piece of Wood: The Image of Al Gore in the Poems of Maya Angelou...
...Make no mistake about it," says Vice President Al Gore, who was talking about information highways long before they were fashionable. "This is by all odds the most important and lucrative marketplace of the 21st century." If Gore is right, the new technology will force the merger of television, telecommunications, computers, consumer electronics, publishing and information services into a single interactive information industry. Apple Computer chairman John Sculley estimates that the revenue generated by this megaindustry could reach $3.5 trillion worldwide by the year 2001. (The entire U.S. gross national product today is about $5.9 trillion...
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton and Gore made building a "data superhighway" a centerpiece of their program to revitalize the U.S. economy, comparing it with the government's role in creating the interstate highway system in the 1950s. The budget proposal the Administration submitted in February includes nearly $5 billion over the next four years to develop new software and equipment for the information highway...
...WHIP HAS BEEN CRACKED," GRUMBLED REpublican curmudgeon Jesse Helms. Yes, and hard enough that a rare visit by Vice President Al Gore to the Senate chamber turned out to be totally unnecessary; there was no tie for him to break. President Bill Clinton's budget resolution sailed through, 54 to 45, with only two Democrats joining a solid Republican bloc in opposition to the proposal...
...have a recurring nightmare that goes something like this: A polygamous tutor moves in, and takes more and more wives, with whom he has more and more children, until the family takes over the who of Gore Hall. Their fecundity forces a mass of displaced students to live in the laundry rooms...