Word: vision
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Bakker's sense of vision was highly erratic as well as expensive. In 1977 he suddenly announced a push for a worldwide network of missions; months later he abandoned that project and broke ground for what was to become Heritage USA. In 1986 Bakker raised $3 million in the span of a month to erect Kevin's House, an adjacent 14-bedroom home for handicapped children. Today only two youngsters live there, and federal investigators are wondering where the money went. The principal victims were PTL's "Lifetime Partners," an estimated 120,000 heads of households who pledged...
...vision has sprouted in my brain. But I guess I should change tenses now. I finally did it, you see. I really wouldn't have on my own. But a friend from home came up this week and did the tourist...
Since then, a horrific vision has sprouted in my brain...
Dukakis believes he has found an answer to the Democratic Party's desperate search for a post-New Deal ideology: liberalism on the cheap. He offers the traditional vision of "economic opportunity" and "full employment." The difference is that Dukakis insists that these goals can be achieved largely by rechanneling existing federal resources. As a candidate, he resists putting price tags on programs: "I don't think you have to prepare a budget, for God's sake." But even Dukakis' showcase proposal -- a regional-development fund that he mentions in almost every speech -- would cost just $500 million a year...
Strange and different? Yes, very. But not quite as strange and different as it would have seemed a couple of years ago. Novoye myshleniye (new thinking), Mikhail Gorbachev calls this vision of a new international order. The phrase has become a standard entry in Gorbachev's lexicon, along with another mouthful: obshchaya bezopasnost (mutual security). In the world according to Gorbachev, these concepts mean rejecting the basic zero-sum, cold-war notion that any gain for one side requires a loss for the other, that security depends on making rivals insecure. "Less security for the U.S. compared to the Soviet...