Word: vision
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Many feel that Dole, who also canceled a speech outlining his foreign policy proposals, is still searching for a concrete vision to bring voters...
...Dole says of legislation, as he always does, that he wants to "see how it looks" on the Senate floor, he isn't talking about the shape of a specific bill as much as its whip count. He believes in what emerges from the day's horse trading; his vision is the shadow cast by compromise...
...Larry didn't get it," explains Farzad Dibachi. Larry is Larry Ellison, CEO of Silicon Valley powerhouse Oracle Corp., which has been struggling to sell the world on its vision of a $500 computer. "It" is the idea underlying Diba, the Valley start-up Dibachi launched last winter after quitting his job at Oracle. And the idea is IDEA, the Interactive Digital Electronic Appliance, a line of cheap devices that do just one thing instead of the limitless tasks expected of a PC. For example, the Diba Kitchen Idea, above, holds thousands of recipes on a CD-ROM. Diba wants...
...Evangelicals have never been a single church with a hierarchy, explains Mark Noll, director of the Institute for Evangelical Studies at Illinois' Wheaton College, but rather "a network of networks." During his extended prime, Billy spoke for many of these. If his gradual journey from a narrowly exclusive vision of Christianity to the embrace of almost anybody willing to accept Jesus alienated the movement's Fundamentalist wing, it brought untold numbers into the fold. It resonated particularly well during the prosperous post-World War II years, with the emphasis on American unity...
This week the outrageous Mr. Stupak unveils his outsize, outlandish, outer-space vision in an orgasmic burst of fireworks and flackery. The fourth tallest building in the U.S. (fifth, if you count the World Trade Center twice), the Stratosphere opens with 1,500 rooms and 97,000 sq. ft. of casino space, and a promenade with a handsomely designed World's Fair theme. By year's end Stupak hopes to have completed an additional 1,000 rooms, a retail mall, a giant pool and a King Kong-size gorilla ride--a 70-ft.-high mechanical ape that will climb...