Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region of the world known for strife rather than compromise and factionalism more than unity, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez seemed to be setting himself up for failure when he tried to sell his vision for regional peace to the other four Central American heads of state. But Arias' idea became reality in August, 1987, when the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua met with Arias in Guatemala City and signed the treaty...
...Khazei's vision of public service has inspired a wide variety of people to join the City Year team. The program has been able to tap a pool of recent college and professional school graduates to spur its fundraising effort. In fact, City Year was officially launched in late April at a spring benefit thrown by the Voluntary Fundraisers Association (VFA). VFA, which was founded by a group of young management consultants, teamed up with City Year to target more than 1000 people by mail, inviting them to attend a dance benefit or to contribute by mail...
...image of a salesman at the door conjures up a vision both sympathetic and imposing. Not a bad analogy for leaving college and washing up on the shores of the real world...
...just kids, really. Teens are tuning in, but older skaters have been hanging in as well. "The popularity of skateboarding has run in cycles," says Brad Dorfman, 38, whose Vision company, based in Costa Mesa, Calif., pulled in over $30 million in revenue last year by making outstanding boards and a lot of good duds to go with them. "But every time around, the foundation and following of skateboarding keep getting stronger and broader." Down in Atlanta, Mark Lawrence, owner of Crazy Lou's Skateboards, is similarly optimistic. "Because of the skaters who've been around a while, the consensus...
...outcast, Yuri was forced to take the only job he could find: plumber at a maternity hospital. Not long afterward, he was injured in an oxygen-tank explosion. Since then he has suffered headaches and double vision. Doctors say he may need brain surgery. But, as Vera points out, "it's easier to get a ticket to the moon here than a brain scan." During a hospital stay last month, Yuri contracted hepatitis from a needle. The U.S. embassy has asked Soviet authorities to allow the family to leave so Zieman can get treatment not available in the U.S.S.R...