Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were it not for Klein, reality might have always been one of fashion's dirtiest words. Early on, colleagues, editors and critics alike mistook his distaste for the fantastical as evidence of artlessness. But they eventually began to appreciate the gracefulness and clarity of his vision. "The clothing is extraordinarily important," notes Richard Martin, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "He is the true American Puritan. Even as his style has evolved over time, it's always about eliminating anything that is not necessary, and always thinking of the garment as being pure as possible...
...with the budget, he's a man who doesn't so much shape national opinion as locate it, then wraps his arms around whatever he has found and holds on for dear life. What he sometimes lacks is those things that help define influence: a vision that inspires people to shed their doubts and follow his lead, an ability to connect with people and shape the way they look at the world. This is why the same man who can order troops to Haiti can still lose a floor vote in Congress on health care...
...imitators. Yet in casting off the title of Senate majority leader, one of the golden prizes of American political life, even Bob Dole, a longtime master of the power game, has in effect admitted that power is a prize of uncertain value. By itself, it doesn't provide a vision or a following. It is possible that a presidential candidate can succeed without the first. Without the second, he has a problem...
Roberts, 32, began showing indications of greatness at a young age. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, and blind since age five, when cataracts destroyed his vision, he began taking piano lessons at 12, learning how to read music through Braille. He was a quick study. When Roberts was 22, Marsalis asked him to join his band; and at 25 he won first prize in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. His subsequent career as a recording artist also met with early success--he is the first musician to have had his first three albums reach No. 1 on Billboard...
...sense the vision has come true. Increasingly, a college degree and middle-class opportunity are the same thing, and four of every five college degrees are delivered by a public university. Back in the '70s, when the number of college graduates was growing rapidly because of the coming of age of the baby boomers and a wave of campus construction, the economic "return" from a college degree began to fall; economists nodded their heads with satisfaction at this proof of the law of supply and demand at work. Then in the '80s the return began to rise dramatically because...