Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GARBAGE barges, hypodermic needles, toxic waste and other pollutants washing up on American shores have filled the nation's consciousness with a frightening vision of the earth's future. What can our community can do on a smaller scale to combat these environmental threats? The College's recent support of small-scale student recycling effort is a start...
...also better equipped to deal with the world. Dukakis believes in the rule of law, and he favors negotiation over chest-beating. He even speaks the language of much of the rest of our hemisphere. Central to his vision of the world is a commitment to human rights. Dukakis would make South African apartheid a target, and he would not continue aid to the contras...
...better and worse, Bush is not Reagan. As an administrator this would clearly be a virtue, since the Vice President, although incurious and often inattentive, does have an underlying understanding of how Government works. The problem for Bush is "the vision thing." While Dukakis is trying to hide his ideology, Bush is attempting to conceal the fact that he does not have any. A former Bush aide contends, "He's not interested in policy." Through his entire career, the Vice President has been a political chameleon, taking on the coloration of the President he serves. Although he would hate...
...holds the promise of being far more interesting as President than he ever was as candidate. By nature a peripatetic tinkerer, Dukakis has undoubtedly fantasized about how he would tackle problems like the homeless without creating expensive federal bureaucracies. But he either refuses or is unable to articulate his vision. His most ambitious campaign proposals bear Dukakis' characteristic stamp of liberalism on the cheap. He would mandate that employers provide health insurance and covertly pass along the costs to consumers in the form of higher prices. In a technical sense, Dukakis' college-loan proposal is a wonder to behold: graduates...
...sounds corny to say it but most people really love SOM," said second-year student Thomas Amenta. "[The change] is an insult to our vision of management." Nationally, Yale's 12-year-old equivalent to business school is known as much for its experimental emphasis on behavior as its private business curriculum...