Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system for making Internet connections via satellite. Through it all, he never let anything slip or allowed the conversation to turn back to the job. When he praised a pbs documentary on Harry Truman, a reporter observed that as Vice President, Truman rarely saw F.D.R. Gore changed the subject. And when the other correspondent asked him about the state of Clinton's second term, he rolled his eyes and moaned, "Don't make me work." Then he retreated to the front of the plane and sent back an answer in writing...
Gore has a few long-held obsessions, that's why--and this is one of them. He started worrying about global climate change as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1960s, before almost anyone on earth had heard of the subject, and as a Senator, he wrote a rousing manifesto on the subject, Earth in the Balance. But now he must sell an Administration approach he once would have called too cautious--one that is sure to get hammered by the greener-than-thou Europeans. If he comes home without an agreement, his environmentalist allies will jeer; if the U.S. agrees...
...authority to negotiate trade agreements without congressional approval, Gore tried to talk Clinton into making his case before a joint session of Congress and spoke out in favor of the bill when preaching to the converted, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. But he had nothing to say on the subject when addressing the national convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O, which opposed the bill. "Clinton went in there and gave it to the union right between the eyes," says D.L.C. president Al From, "but Gore didn't bring it up. For some people that raised questions about what he believes...
...push to hasten the process of getting death-row inmates actually put to death. Two have been executed this year in South Carolina, but Condon expects the numbers to rise next year. (Sixty-nine prisoners in the state are on death row.) Condon has long been passionate on the subject. In the 1994 campaign for attorney general, a race in which both candidates were so pro-death penalty that Professor Lublin refers to it as the "Fry-Off," Condon suggested replacing the electric chair with an "electric couch...
...Student Advisory Committee is a student group at Harvard, and they were the group conducting the poll," thus they are subject to student group regulations, McLaughlin said...