Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gore is often perceived as Cosmic Al, and indeed his office is a memorial to planet Earth, with one huge picture of the sphere hanging where the grip-and- grin photos usually are. But Gore has tethered himself to the ground: on top of his desk is a foot-high stack of three-ring binders filled with the obscure yet costly rules and regulations that he hopes to bring under control. At the moment, no aspect of procurement escapes Gore's memory. While some politicians speak in sound bites and some in windy paragraphs, Gore speaks at book length whenever...
With the cold war over, he aims to defend the planet...
...pushing for democratic reform in Russia were simple compared with the new challenge he has taken up. As president of the International Green Cross/Green Crescent, a private organization intended to help coordinate global environmental initiatives, Gorbachev hopes to do nothing less than spearhead a drive to save the planet...
...songs to date, with her voice humming and hovering above a tinkling, childlike melody: "And your love/ breaks away the clouds surrounding me." Such moments are too rare on this release. One gets the sense that Carey is squandering her chance at greatness, a malfunctioning probe missing her target planet, spinning into pop oblivion...
...reason Mars Observer had gone abruptly off the air the previous Saturday evening may never be known, although engineers suspect faulty transistors in the clocks that govern all the probe's electronics. And the ship's whereabouts are anybody's guess. It could be in orbit around the Red Planet or shooting off into interplanetary space. It could have blown up. A fringe group even swears that NASA destroyed Observer to hide the existence of a Martian civilization...