Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working in corporate law firms will at some point in their career consider government, non-profit or public interest law. The programs Ron created and the counseling he provided to anyone who stopped by his office will surely lay a foundation for people to exercise that vision. Will the students who are at Harvard now have the same opportunity...
...world order. He proclaimed a benevolent decimation of the Soviet armed forces, an effective 10% drawdown in manpower and hardware. He earned loud cheers and enthusiastic praise around the world, but not from the newly elected leader in Washington. George Bush was into his prudence thing, not his vision thing. As the Administration took shape, it radiated not just caution but skepticism, with lots of grumbling about Gorbasms and Gorbomania...
...there was a crucial difference: as is so often the case with Gorbachev, he achieved his reconciliation without humiliation. As he had done before, the Soviet leader let the ongoing crisis of the Communist system serve as an opportunity to push his nation toward a broader vision of the future. "We need spiritual values," Gorbachev declared the day before the Vatican meeting. "We need a revolution of the mind...
...letter, Spence outlines eight areas, including internationalization and renewed emphasis on the sciences, which form much of his "vision for Harvard's path into the next century...
...will the U.S.'s oldest university "turn that vision into a reality?" By asking for money. An astronomically high amount of money...