Word: wonking
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...candidate for president in 2000, just as he was in 1996. Ring a bell? He's sort of a big guy, gray hair, a tanned-and-rested aging businessman's quality about him. He's participated in a third-party debate or two, and shows up on the occasional wonk-leaning talk show, usually amid great condescension. The Libertarians would love it if everybody knew Harry Browne's name. But they'd much rather you knew theirs. They've been occupying a calm, studied place on the fringe of American politics since 1972, and they're not going anywhere - mainly...
...Gore was a wonk at Harvard," the Republican Reassurer said, and hung...
...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...