Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khazei says he worked closely on the formulation of Hart's proposals for national public service legislation, which proposes compulsory community service work for college-age youth. Hart's college organizers say that they like Hart's "progressive, national" vision, and Khazei says that workers in their early twenties will be more numerous in Hart's campaign than in any other candidate...
Jack Kemp, the Boy Scout of supply-side economics, hates to speak ill of others. Like the "good shepherd" he so often cites, Kemp wants to convert both foe and friend to his vision of boundless growth through tax cuts and monetary reform. But so far his gauzy optimism has proved more boring than inspirational to voters; for months, he has idled near the bottom of the polls. Last week Pollyanna began to look more like Cruella De Ville: Kemp unleashed an uncharacteristically hard-nosed campaign that managed to rattle both George Bush and Bob Dole. In so doing...
...often harsh. On a single day in his first year, he threw out 300 students for being tardy or absent and, he said, for disrupting the school. "Leeches and parasites," he calls such pupils. Over the next five years he tossed out hundreds more. Faculty members hostile to $ his vision were dismissed or strongly encouraged to leave. During his six-year tenure some 100 have departed, including a basketball coach who was hustled out by security guards for failing to stand at attention during the singing of the school alma mater. "I expurgated them through a vast variety of methods...
...renegade status now attracts the unstable as well as true believers. Fueled by the perceived injustice of Singer's death, his increasingly fanatic kin nurtured quasi- religious fantasies. As the ninth anniversary of Singer's death approached, either Vickie Singer, 44, or Addam Swapp, 27, had a vision that John's resurrection would lead to the Second Coming of Christ...
Everyone clamors for presidential candidates to espouse a vision of America' s future. But is there really a vision in the house...