Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...utopian vision: no more mad dashes past the Sheraton Commander to reach the Registrar's Office before the 5 p.m. deadline on study card day, no more inefficient paperwork for departmental administrators and the Registrar's Office...
Even though Sonia Gandhi will probably not become India's next Prime Minister, her presence and reception in this round of elections indicates that there is potential for India to withstand the demands of its fragmented cultural composition. Hopefully, a new leadership will institute a vision of India that appreciates, rather than ignores, the benefits of a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious society...
...wake-up call, that our educational program is not tip-top. President Clinton is rightly convinced that national standards are the way out of the current mess. At a New York City fundraiser in January, the President explained his reasoning: "We cannot pretend, if we have a truly progressive vision of the future, that we can ever achieve what we want to achieve unless we hold our children--all of our children--without regard to their race, their income or their background, to high standards of learning." Students should then be given "the support they need to meet those standards...
...Updike received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Harvard. The degree lauded the author, noting "[his] words living on the page, have given us a profound vision of a familiar society and shown us as though in a mirror our human nature in a perplexed time, with all our frailties and all our yearning for a place in the world...
...Bollinger has brought a new vision andexcitement to the university," she said...