Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer the game goes, the stronger he gets. He's got outstanding vision, and he's getting better...
...they sort out their future. On the other hand, says Steenburgen, the idea of putting down roots has more than a little appeal to a woman who has spent most of her adult life in government housing, with each election bringing the prospect of eviction. The President's vision has them sitting on a bench somewhere, "old people laughing about our lives and not begrudging young people having more time than...
...Mind Works (Norton; $29.95), Pinker suggests an intriguing if highly controversial answer. The mind, he says, is like an ancient, jerry-built computer program made up of dozens of specialized "modules," each honed by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years of evolution. There are modules for stereo vision and manual dexterity, for understanding numbers and grammatical speech, for sexual jealousy and romantic love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display." A mental module, he says, "probably...
...talk about the 'how?' in politics without answering 'what for?,''' Skocpol said. "That's why we have outlined a vision...
...That vision is outlined in The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics, a new selection of essays by political progressives, including one by Skocpol entitled, "A Partnership with American Families...