Word: jack
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...year before championing a simple solution to the Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts about computers and technology, coining the term information superhighway way back in 1979. And so meticulous were Gore's preparations for his 1996 debate with Jack Kemp, the putative heir to Ronald Reagan's Great Communicator throne, that the Vice President demanded his practice room be cooled to the precise temperature of the debate hall--and made sure his aides factored in the audience's effect on the ambient temperature. After four climate-controlled mock debates...
...gauntlet by pricing its hybrid, the Prius, at $16,500 in Japan--about a quarter below production cost. The car, which gets 66 m.p.g., could be available in the U.S. within a year. Global warming will force "a slow phase-off of the internal-combustion engine," GM chairman Jack Smith predicted last month. "We see the hybrid as probably the near term solution...
...educational initiatives were announced, a white paper or two presented, but mostly what there was was talk. "That's Washington," sighed a frustrated, nonnative participant, resigned to cruel geographic determinism like Jack Nicholson at the end of Chinatown. In a series of speeches and panels stretching over a long day and a half, speaker after speaker made the same unassailable points: children should be protected from pornographic Websites and chat room-lurking pedophiles; parents need to be "empowered" to deal with these issues; the Internet is nevertheless a wonderful tool; it is the medium of the 21st century; the 21st...
...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...
...read this week's lead article in The New York Times Magazine with some skepticism and a pinch of admiration. Jack Miles, who recently became well-known for his award-winning book God: A Biography, sets out to prove that doubt is a good thing for religion and that religion in turn is a good thing for America. By distinguishing between religion and belief, Miles manages to treat the current religious upswing in a sophisticated fashion, as the title of the article "Religion Makes a Comeback. (Belief to Follow.)" makes clear. Unfortunately, for all his sophistication, Miles gets the human...