Word: wonk
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...helping do that is to set aside forests as carbon ?preserves,? called carbon sequestration in wonk-speak. If a market developed to package and sell certified reductions in greenhouse emissions, money might flow to states that took action to reduce deforestation. By one calculation, if Acre would commit to cutting in half the expected deforestation along a 500-km stretch of BR-364, the state might ultimately gain $37 million a year from the sale of greenhouse credits. The concept is risky because it might perversely encourage governments to launch development projects in the hope of selling credits to stop...
...formidable debater, a policy wonk able to continuously spout off issue-related facts and figures, Gore indeed came off as a career politician...
...getting in the last word, and definitely out-smirked the Texas governor. But he also came away, somehow, sounding like the man whose numbers just might be believed; that Bush's might just be the "fuzzy math" that Bush complained about. That should be an easy one for a wonk like Gore - it's not, because of Gore's troubled history with the truth - but Bush still lacks the veep's visible confidence when it comes to quoting the fine print...
...daughter Karenna thought of: "I'd like to start by offering you a deal, Jack. If you won't use any football stories, I won't tell any of my warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." In one stroke, Gore got in a semi-funny self-deprecating wonk joke and got Kemp off his game. Gore spends the rest of the debate picking at differences between Kemp and Dole (watch for this one from George W. Tuesday), unprepared Kemp wilts...
...campaign feels like that right now. The hope for W., if it exists, is for him to learn from his father's mistakes. Bush should be attacking Gore vigorously, relentlessly. Instead of bickering over details of drug prescription plans and the like, trying to beat a policy wonk at policy wonking, Bush should be sketching, with strong, simple, repetitive clarity, the principles that he stands for, as opposed to those Gore represents. Gore is vulnerable as a throwback liberal, a big- government, all-daddy statist whose big rock candy mountain mentality assumes that the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings...