Word: gores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment the trouble lifted for Al Gore last week, the Vice President was stepping onto a basketball court inside a Connecticut middle school. Gore was marking time, waiting for Janet Reno to finish her press conference so he could step up to his own battery of TV cameras and proclaim that he was out from under the shadow of a special prosecutor. While he waited, Gore shed his suit coat and strolled to the foul line, chatting with a few dozen seventh- and eighth-graders who were trying out for the school's team. He bounced the ball a time...
That formula--dogged preparation for a rote maneuver that is designed to look bold and spontaneous--has worked well for Gore over the years. As a Congressman in the early 1980s, he would lie flat on his back late at night in an empty House gymnasium and hurl the ball at the hoop again and again; when at last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution...
...with the threat of an independent prosecutor receding, Gore can get on with the business of applying this practice-makes-perfect credo to running for President. It's a task that, even in this era of permanent campaigns, might seem premature for a Vice President, except that it has become the organizing principle of Clinton's status quo second term. Clinton's legacy is now predicated on electing Gore ("It's going to take another presidential election to set these ideas in cement," Clinton has told friends), which is why Gore's electability has become an issue so early...
TIME's Weekend Review For precious figures from Al Gore to Bill Gates, it's been one of those weeks they'd rather forget. Find out why, and get the results of our weeklong Gore Poll. Read the Review LIFE: the week in pictures
...Party grandees are falling over themselves to denounce the treaty, and paint Gore ? who showed his spirit at Kyoto Sunday ? as an extremist. You can tell it's a campaign issue when Steve Forbes comes out of the woodwork: the once-and-future presidential wannabe called Kyoto "an unprecedented government seizure of American freedom and sovereignty." Jack Kemp, still smarting from the '96 Veep debate, described it as "dangerous...