Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diverging life situations of men and women favor divergent political ideologies. Cut off from daily contact with the weak and the needy, and hypnotized by the zero-sum ethic of televised sports, men were bound to be seduced by the social Darwinism of the political right, with its vision of the world as a vast playing field for superstar linebackers and heroic entrepreneurs on leave from The Fountainhead...
Although participants said the proposed mission statement is currently at an early stage, they also said they want it to include a general vision for the group and a structural outline...
...debate what might have been. I still believe in desegregating schools by both class and race. But since it won't happen in many places, what goal realistically remains for those who fought so bravely for desegregated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, Boston, New Orleans and Denver? To what vision of the good society can they dedicate themselves...
DIANA NAPPER, 38; WEXFORD, PA.; housewife and mother Her best friend, Carol Jo Weiss Friedman, had a vision that Napper would create something to make people more aware of breast cancer. So Napper designed the crystal-and-pearl Glimmer of Hope pin in memory of Friedman, who died of the disease in 1990. Almost 2,000 pins have been sold, raising nearly $24,000 for research. The proceeds will go to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Napper says the pin represents a bond among women: "Even those of us who don't have breast cancer are afraid...
Unfortunately, Rouse's vision was so influential that it eventually took on an anesthetizing quality of its own. The restored warehouses, quaint specialty shops, cookie stations and sidewalk jugglers came to seem as artificial and cliched as the suburban malls they were intended to compete with. But Rouse, who died last week at 81, wrought more changes and brought more hope to the American city than any builder...