But when it looked like Gore was truly in it to build a durable, independent, public-minded news institution, it was hard to be too critical of him for leveraging the prestige and connections of the office he once held to achieve that aim.
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It was an extraordinary moment of celebration of and with several of America's most consequential national security-minded public servants.
His crass attention to the bottom line has made enemies in the do-gooder, high-minded public radio world, but it's paying off.
Progressive environmental policies from the Chinese government combined with an increasingly green-minded public is fueling what some are calling a clean technology renaissance around the country.
Winchester has a large liberal-minded public-sector middle-class: Hampshire County Council, the Winchester School of Art, King Alfred's College, and the genteel types round its ancient cathedral and public school.
To this end, leaders of six preeminent national security-minded public policy institutions - including the Heritage Foundation, the Claremont Institute, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy and my own Center for Security Policy - came together earlier this year to define such an agenda.
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Free market economists admire the separation of money and government while audit-minded accountants relish its public traceability.
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"He feels very conscious of the way in which he will be perceived by right-minded members of the public hereafter, " he said.
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Or, even worse, as high-minded defenders of the public interest.
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But the public response, and that of more liberal-minded Chinese newspapers, prompted a change of attitude.
If moderate Republicans in Congress follow the reform-minded companies and the American public, then ExxonMobil will lose and TSCA reform will win.
If, as the media warned, the public would reject a list comprised of sober-minded realists, one would have expected that support to drop.
But the independent agency is influential on matters of public safety and its decisions can spur action from like-minded legislators and transportation agencies nationwide.
That Japanese politics is still taken seriously my most of the (rather seriously-minded, if easily bamboozled) Japanese public, is proven by still very high voting participation rates (close to 70% in the last national election).
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Unhelpfully for Mr Brown, Alistair Darling, his independent-minded chancellor, stresses the urgency of chipping away at public debt.
Likud must be perceived as the party of commonsense ideas and clear-minded policies that inspire, attract and convince the Israeli public to support it.
Jerseyites might not have minded if the extra taxes had led to much-improved public services.
Independent-minded investors can look into the inner workings of most of the public companies and decide for themselves which of them deserve their attention and investment money.
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" She added that "you have to get up every day and work to do best you can and communicate that to the vast majority of fair-minded Americans whether they're in Congress, in the press or in the public.
Any fair-minded person would understand the distinction, as well as the underlying motive to distort the public record to satisfy a clear editorial preconception.
While Democrats often criticize Bush as ill-informed and narrow-minded, the president will likely give a solid speech that is well received by the general public.
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