Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view promoted by former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon that Jordan should be the Palestinian homeland and that the West Bank should be annexed by Israel. If large numbers of Palestinians from the West Bank were forced into Jordan, where the population is already almost two-thirds Palestinian, Sharon's vision might become Hussein's reality...
...voters would be ashamed to cast their ballot for someone running on a platform of competence. That's not what presidential elections are about--they're about what Bush once called "that vision thing." Vision as in "it's morning in America," as in the New Frontier, the New Deal, the Great Society...
...drama demands a strong final act, an inspirational address that seemed beyond Dukakis' rhetoric range. Could the no-nonsense nominee reach within himself to discover the language of leadership? Could he go beyond the pedestrian promises of "good jobs at good wages" to give voice to a new Democratic vision? Having achieved unity, could he now explain what its purpose...
...world around them; they are growing up secure in the supremacy that ignorance breeds. It's easy to accept unquestioningly the xenophobia of "we're number one" if you can't even locate the competition on a map. Mom, baseball and apple pie thrive on a single-minded vision of the United States, one which hardly acknowledges the vast majority of the world's population...
Already trailing, the Republicans are running scared. Unless Bush discovers "that vision thing" real soon, the party's over for the Grand Old Party...