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General Motors 23,948 --Electric self-starter (1912) --Diesel-powered train (1934) --Automatic transmission (1940) --Catalytic converter (1975)
Gore, Joe Lieberman and campaign chairman William Daley spent Friday working the phones, calling moderate Democratic House members and Senators, shoring up support. But even Gore's legal team was aware of the dangers. Imagine the perception, an adviser noted: "Al Gore lost the election but won it back in...
History books already include passages about Johnson's success as an African-American inventor, showing his work next to the everyday inventions of other black scientists and engineers who are relative unknowns: the man who invented refrigerated trucks, the woman who developed a machine for hair permanents or the man...
A 1995 agreement between Gore and then Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin obliged Russia to stop shipping conventional weapons to Iran, in order to exempt Moscow from automatic U.S. sanctions against those who sell arms to countries on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism. Despite the undertaking...
First, the election commission said Driskell and Burton had overspent their campaign limit, a violation which, unbeknownst to election commissioners, would have resulted in the ticket's automatic expulsion from the race.