Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult time believing that the President, without any consultation with Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the allies, would propose something that would end extended deterrence. Nonetheless, there was useful work done in Iceland. I look on it as an intelligence operation. We come away with a clearer vision of the alternatives. We can either have arms control or we can have a crash program to deploy defense. We can't have both. The President has always said SDI is just a research program, and the Soviets say let's limit it to research. It shouldn't be beyond...
...advantage in tanks and a 3-to-1 advantage in artillery.) Is the existing structure of Western security to be cast aside before we are assured that an alternative truly exists? The President may win plaudits from some when he holds out his vision of a "world without nuclear weapons," but has he seriously examined the consequences? What do the Joint Chiefs have to say about a world in which the nuclear deterrent has been removed? Indeed, how do our allies feel about the initiative taken at the summit without any prior consultation...
...with Sargent's own reputation, beneath the ash and rubble of World War I. Of course, he had to be revived. In Reagan's America, you cannot keep a good courtier down. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton give us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroiding, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent. And the public that liked Upstairs, Downstairs is going to like him -- a thought that may not have been too far from...
...four Iranian natives have created one of Canada's biggest and most spectacular real estate baronies and are quickly expanding their razzle-dazzle fiefdom southward. Before long, U.S. consumers will get a full exposure to the revolutionary marketing flair of the Ghermezians, who have combined a Disney-style entertainment vision with their own shrewd merchandising sense to produce the latest in suburban shopping temples, the megamall...
...through the force of his personality; that is one reason why he accepted the Iceland invitation and why he felt confident about getting into a major bargaining session once there. So, rather than aggressively pursuing a more limited agreement, Reagan and his advisers found themselves scrambling after Gorbachev's vision. The U.S. negotiators pursued a strategy that was in some ways a mirror of the Soviet one: putting together enough tantalizing agreements so that when the decisive moment finally arrived, the other side would be willing to back down a bit on SDI. The President accepted...