Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alarmingly, both share a discouraged, even despairing view of government's role in society. Reagan, a political outsider, ran on a platform of getting the feds off America's back and has slashed and snipped when he wasn't selling wholesale. Similarly, JPK puts forward no vision of a brighter, fairer country led by responsive lawmakers committed to social justice. He instead opts to try to out-technocrat the conservatives, following the same defeatist logic that led Uncle Teddy '54 to support Gramm-Rudman's prescription for automatic budget cuts...
...brief (29 minutes) State of the Union speech last Tuesday, counterpointed the next morning by the jarring numbers in his fiscal 1987 budget, replayed the themes he has stressed throughout his charmed political life. As he turned an enviable 75 last week, Reagan pushed his red-white-and-blue vision with a young man's zeal and showed his unflagging determination to bring his revolution to fulfillment...
...emphasis on the family (19 mentions) was rivaled only by his highlighting of the future (16 mentions). His reference to the movie Back to the Future was fitting: his image of the future, a peaceful era of happy families in tight communities, harks back to his vision of an idealized past. For the President, future indicative is past perfect. There were, however, few forward-looking initiatives in his address, in part because budget restraints prevent anything that amounts to more than walking-around money...
Doing the laundry is not as simple as it used to be. Many modern washers and dryers have enough time, temperature and fabric settings to confuse a test pilot. The buttons and dials can be especially daunting for people with poor vision, including many of the elderly, and Spanish-speaking Americans, some of whom cannot read English. Now Whirlpool, noting that the U.S. population includes some 28 million people over the age of 65 and about 18 million Hispanics, has become the first major U.S. appliance manufacturer to introduce a line of washers and dryers designed for those large groups...
After living as a church worker in a Brooklyn black ghetto, Robertson ( eventually landed in Virginia's Tidewater with $70 in cash, an aged De Soto, and a vision of "claiming" a defunct UHF station for Jesus. The price (divinely ordained, as Robertson saw it): $37,000. WYAH went on the air in 1961 with a weak signal, one camera, and a movie projector that frequently jammed. But America's first Christian TV station was afloat, to be followed by others in Atlanta, Dallas and Boston. After overcoming struggles that Robertson attributed to "satanic oppression," the operation developed money- raising...