Word: gores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lamar Alexander is scraping by with $2.2 million and frantically downsizing his campaign just to last until Iowa. (Steve Forbes has raised $2.7 million, just to see if he could, but of course he's mostly cutting his own checks.) On the Democratic side, the faintness of Al Gore's pulse has kept things closer ? the veep has netted only $18.5 million, with $11.5 million riding on the alternative, former jock and senator Bill Bradley...
...this front-loaded 2000 election season, Bush and Gore have so much money because they are the presumptive nominees; they are also the presumptive nominees, in part, because they have so much money. Front-runners do not complain about ironies like that, nor is one likely to admit publicly that when he wins, he will be less a public servant than a corporation, in thrall to polls on visible issues and to special-interest shareholders on everything else. The task of voicing such unpleasantness ? of running on it ? tends to be taken up by the underdogs, to the candidates...
...which has patently failed in its prime objective of overthrowing Fidel Castro and has long since been abandoned by all of Washington?s allies. But those "special interest groups" ?- anti-Castro Cuban exiles with significant electoral power in the swing states of Florida and New Jersey ?- will have Al Gore?s people jumping on the brake wherever possible. "Conventional wisdom is that Gore?s interests will stand in the way of doing much of anything on foreign policy," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "On the other hand, President Clinton has his legacy to think about...
...donation of medicines. The White House knows that old age, rather than the embargo, is what?s going to get the 72-year-old Castro out of office, and the U.S. has a long-term interest in fostering ties with the generation that will succeed him. But with Gore having to face the Florida governor?s brother in a tight presidential race, it could be a while before you're lighting up a legal Cohiba...
...much over policy as over politics. On the policy front, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "Republicans tried to use the Y2K legislation to take a big whack at tort reform, but the White House succeeded in keeping the measure limited to Y2K issues." Vice President Al Gore, whose hands were all over the bill because of its possible implications for his presidential candidacy, also worked hard to include incentives that would encourage companies to fix Y2K problems. On the political front, "Republicans maneuvered the legislation so as to force Gore to choose between his political buddies," say Branegan...