Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those who support this resolution are in factsacrificing freedom to impose their own vision onour society," Leff said...
...Sarah seeks her karma in the Sunbelt, she has reason to resent "my old-fashioned Puritan conscience." But Updike's use of such references should not be taken too somberly; the stern, rock-ribbed moral universe of The Scarlet Letter serves here as a subtle counterpoint to a comic vision of anything-goes ethics in mid-1980s America...
Campaigns, according to the civics texts and good-government groups, are supposed to be about issues and ideas, ideology and vision. Focusing on personality and manner is trivial. Yet this year, the fight for the Republican nomination involves something far more important than artificial differences on oil-import fees or taxes. It is a struggle between styles and temperaments that go to the heart of the kind of President each would...
...Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government the late President's vision of equality in the public workplace casts barely a thin shadow over the institution dedicated to the pursuit of the value of public management. In fact, students emerging from the school's prestigious Senior Executive Fellows Program--in which government agencies pay up to $17,000 per student for management training--will conclude that women are hardly protagonists in the public debate...
These are tasks that should be undertaken seriously and soon. Otherwise the boastful claims of the Kennedy School's public management programs must bear a muted footenote: within resides a vision of public value, for men only. And as long as this continues, federal policymakers must legitimately ask if either the federal government or its executive students are getting their money's worth from Cambridge...