sentences:  After Al Gore lost the 2000 presidential election, the incoming administration considered the programmatic moniker Digital Earth a political liability.Digital Earth was relegated to a minority status within the FGDC, used primarily to define 3-D visualization reference models.In 1999, with the Chinese government's full backing, the inaugural International Symposium on Digital Earth in Beijing provided a venue for the extensive international support for implementing the Gore Digital Earth vision introduced a year earlier.