Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who thinks that habitual use of the Clintonic mood poses only distant and highly abstract dangers is sorely mistaken. Al Gore '69 is, of course, a robot, and as such relies on traditional logic circuits...
...could blame the save-the-earth brigade for feeling a bit confused last week. There was Carol Browner, eco-hero Al Gore's personally approved choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, coming to the defense of 35 pesticides that potentially cause cancer. Arguing that they actually pose little threat to human health since they are consumed in extremely minute amounts, she seemed poised to ask Congress to relax one of America's oldest and most stringent food-safety laws so that farmers could keep applying the chemicals to crops...
...dream of environmentalists is the nightmare of producers and users of coal, which contains more carbon than any other fuel. Supporters like Vice President Al Gore praise the idea because it would cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the main culprit in global warming. "It fights the deficit and it fights pollution in a big way," says David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
Hopefully, these so called scandals will be no more damaging than youthful marijuana smoking. After Douglas Ginsberg's nomination to the Supreme Court was withdrawn because he had smoked pot years earlier, a host of public figures admitted to one-time marijuana experimentation. Senator Al Gore '69 was among them, and his ascendancy to the vice presidency (as well as non-inhaler Clinton's election) is proof that the scandal has lost its potency...
...Gore, who became an overseer while serving as a United States senator from Tennessee, has not resigned his Harvard position since assuming his new post. His term expires this year...