That option is off the table and left-right polarisation has returned, at least temporarily.
This week its current left-right alliance broke up acrimoniously after only 18 months in office.
If you measure Mr Gore on a left-right scale, he looks like a conventional centrist.
By contrast, the left-right division affects all areas of policy, and here Mr Blair is far from isolated.
My complaint here is not ideological, at least not in the left-right sense.
But the left-right measure is not the most telling gauge of the vice-president.
What does a new, left-right coalition led by Enrico Letta mean for those in search of a little energy relief?
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Ellenberger (29-6) made short work of Marquardt (35-12-2), knocking him down with a left-right and then hurting him with another.
Brazilian politics are difficult for non-Brazilians to follow, and foreign observers often reduce the political arena to a simple left-right divide.
It was more of the same in the next round, with Pacquiao landing with two looping rights and a rapier left-right-left combination.
The new TomTom range includes an intuitive One-Button Control that enables users to easily navigate up-down-left-right through menus to access key stats and watch features.
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Yamaha designed the model with left-right symmetrical audio circuitry to provide the shortest circuit path for audio signal travel without loss of audio signal purity.
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In other words, we need to get the economy healthy again in order to sustain the left-right political dialogue and to avoid the eventual breakdown of society.
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And, although Germany is a consensus-loving country, it does not warm to left-right coalitions at the federal level: the previous one, between 1966 and 1969, was not a particularly happy affair.
In striving to do what the voters want, the Third Way frees policymakers from the need to place every decision on a left-right spectrum, or inside any other fixed ideological scheme.
What makes Mr Blair prone to accidents in Scotland is that politics north of the border divides not just on the usual left-right lines, but also over the constitutional issue, between those who want to keep Britain together and those who do not.
Neat ideological labels have become harder to pin on parties since they have had to contend with the emergence of what some commentators call post-material issues (such as the environment, personal morality and consumer rights) which do not slot elegantly into the old left-right framework.
Unlike a conventional spacecraft, which would be navigated on the basis of signals sent to and from ground controllers, Deep Space 1 is programmed to make its own left-right, up-down decisions on data from sensors that look at the stars to track position and guide course changes.
Getting it right requires splitting the left- and right-handed twins into separate batches, a complicated process.
Mr Mitchell is due to meet Mr Netanyahu, who leads a right-leaning coalition combining the centre-right, centre-left and far-right parties.
John briefed the President right after he left -- right after he left the dinner.
Thanks to its perfectly-balanced, ambidextrous V-shaped design, the Lua delivers supreme comfort to both left- and right-handers.
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The course is set against the backdrop of a cliff, and features nearly every shot you could possibly encounter in the wild. (Arnold's favorite is the number two, a straight-across-the-body, left-to-right flight).
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Its precursor, molecules of lactic acid, exists in two forms, so-called left-handed and right-handed versions.
Economists from the center-left to center-right have been recommending premium support for decades, and it was first proposed by Stanford's Alain Enthoven in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1978.
Drive-by-wire would, for example, do away with the distinction between left-hand and right-hand drive vehicles, since the driver would no longer be tied to the steering wheel and the location of the pedals.
MEPs from centre-left, centre-right and the centre reliably favour action at the European level, a bigger EU budget, more public spending, more EU regulation and generally grabbing power from national governments and the commission.
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