Word: vision
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...address are, as of yet, mere words. They have not been put to a vote; they have not even been written into usable legislation. But, as press secretaries and Washington in general remind us, words are powerful devices. Clinton offered his Republican majority and our country a very different vision of government than the one prevalent during the past two decades...
...Vice President's poll numbers are up, and his Air Force Two press compartment is full of reporters who have little choice but to report on Gore and his 21st century agenda: solar-energy tax credits. High-tech classrooms. Computerized police departments. And the "Digital Earth initiative," Gore's vision of tomorrow's science museum, a 3-D virtual globe connected via the Internet to all the scientific, political, geographic and cultural data under the sun. "You reporters want scandal," says a senior Gore adviser, "but you have to settle for high-tech heaven...
...what of Henri Paul, the chauffeur so loaded with alcohol that his vision may have been blurred as he smashed into the Alma tunnel's 13th pillar? Sancton and MacLeod reveal Paul's history of daredevil stunts in passenger planes, and how his final stunt was to drink whiskey-strength aperitifs -- right under the noses of Dodi Fayed's bodyguards. Another irony: Mohammed Al-Fayed, in his first post-crash interview, tells Sancton and MacLeod how he begged Dodi not to go from the rear of the hotel with a substitute driver. Dodi didn't heed Mohammed's advice...
...first time in the last four years, none of the candidates running for president or vice president of the council had tried for one of those offices previously. The field was young and filled with leaders by default, not by those who have in the past defined a strong vision for the council...
Jackson's speech also included a political viewpoint that he has expressed frequently in recent public forums: that America's inner cities are the last great economic frontier. Despite differences highlighted in metropolitan areas, Jackson insisted that the American dream is a vision all Americans share...