Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked whether he believed the government had a role in his vision, Shue said he wanted to limit the bureaucracy in "Do Something...
...working out of his great idea that he became a specialist in zoology, taxonomy, geology, paleontology, animal breeding, plant breeding, embryology, animal behavior, human behavior, sociology and ecology (a discipline he essentially created). Einstein, too, was guided in his scientific work by a single vision. So was Edward Gibbon, who described the guiding idea of his multivolume historical and literary masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a single short sentence: "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion." These examples suggest that someone who sets out to answer a broad question and sticks with...
With lively, dancing eyes peering behind frameless glasses, Shelby is equally at ease discussing the philosophy of science or chatting about the vision of large corporate firms with residents of Leverett House's C-entry...
...best of a PC (some processing smarts, a screen, a modem) with the best of the Net (tons of information, most of it free). Behind the scenes, database software (Oracle's, of course) will make all this goodness transparently simple to navigate. On the front end, in Ellison's vision, might be Apple's famously friendly user interface, returning, Lazarus-like, with a cute little beep, to drive a stake through the heart of Microsoft...
...charge rarely knew the worth of these cartoons, artistically or financially. Even Walt, in his later years, was blinkered. The genius-boss, who in 1934 had dazzled his staff for four hours laying out his vision for Snow White, turned bitter and vindictive after a 1940 strike at the studio. Disney now coveted real estate; bored with putting fantasy kingdoms into films, he wanted to put one in Anaheim, Calif. And he thought so little of the cels (the precious units of any animated film) that he gave them away to visitors when Disneyland opened...