Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore knew he was coming off a bad week, so he wasted little time trying to charm the 165 United Auto Workers union leaders he met last Monday in a smoke-choked Des Moines, Iowa, hotel conference room. "I know what you can do. You know why I'm here," he said. "We need to talk." But as he spoke, an audience that started out polite but skeptical turned hostile. Gore twice deflected questions about whether the global-warming treaty he championed would send jobs overseas and instead served up encomiums about saving the planet. Then Mike Edwards, the assembly...
...quarter fund raising is likely to approach $4 million, proving he can play this game. A new TIME/CNN poll has Bradley cutting the gap 14 points between Gore and him, to 49% to 29%, in three weeks, raising a question: Are Gore's numbers down because people don't know him--or because they...
...Vice President's own polls, advisers say, show voters know surprisingly little about him, considering that he has run three national campaigns and has figured in every big Clinton decision. "He's still an empty picture frame," says Harvard law professor Chris Edley, a regular at the strategy sessions that take place every two weeks or so at Gore's mansion. The plan is simple: grab credit for the good that has happened under Clinton, maintain distance from the bad and deliver a rationale that Gore is the right person to carry the country forward...
...Gehrig's disease, received the deadly mixture of drugs from Kevorkian as the procedure was recorded on videotape. It was later broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes. "It's not necessarily murder," Kevorkian told correspondent Mike Wallace. "But it doesn't bother me what you call it. I know what...
...Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. His doctrine had two tenets: first, the "biggest s.o.b. on the block" rule, that America should enter fights with every bit of force available or not at all. Second, that the U.S. should never start a fight it didn't know how to end. Powell's doctrine was designed as a kind of notional vaccine against slow-build, slow-burn conflicts like Vietnam. But last week's action exploded both principles: America was not only moving in with less than blinding violence, it was also moving in without knowing how exactly...