Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel ourselves forgetting that we contrive monuments of stone -- to vets, to cops, to Kahlil Gibran, to whomever -- to anchor ourselves in time. That which is written in stone endures, we figure. If the Ten Commandments were given today, they would be flashed on the great Diamond Vision screen at Yankee Stadium, and by sunup not a soul would remember...
...automatic cameras possess night vision, which enabled them to record the bloody fighting along the major streets leading to Tiananmen Square. That sharp footage, skillfully edited and played repeatedly on state-run China Central Television, shows only aggressive "counterrevolutionary" demonstrators attacking impassive soldiers. Zooming in on individual faces in the crowd, the editors created televised WANTED posters, complete with telephone numbers for viewers to call to report on the students frozen on the screen...
Gorbachev's much vaunted charm and appealing slogans have been far less important to the overall success of his foreign policy than his near monopoly of the arms-control enterprise. By the same token, there was nothing wrong with George Bush's earlier attempt to articulate a vision of a Western strategy that will go "beyond containment," but that concept seemed insubstantial and unconvincing in the absence of concrete proposals. Last week Bush made it sound real...
What a difference two days make. George Bush rode into Brussels last Monday the "Nowhere President," criticized as a dithering leader without vision, too passive, too reactive, too unimaginative to compete with Mikhail Gorbachev. In town to celebrate NATO's 40th anniversary, Bush seemed destined to preside over a nasty family quarrel, if not the alliance's demise...
...Coming after more than a decade of Islamization and military rule, Ms. Bhutto may be Pakistan's last chance for Muslim moderation," Ispahani wrote in an editorial published in The New York Times last week. She says Bhutto's vision is one of an Islamic nation that is "compassionate and tolerant...