Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult for this incurable liberal to understand what vision of the United States the conservative camp could possibly be using to reach its conclusions. I tend to take it as a basic fact about America that we are free to speak our minds, especially when it comes to politics. There are no taboos here; there is nothing so special that it cannot be discussed, questioned, and criticized. How can conservatives ignore such a significant part of what makes ours the great nation that...
Regardless of what religious tradition each of us might choose to showcase, we should not feel pressured to conform to any one group's definition of "the holiday season." Religion should be self-defining, and we should note that that entails serious responsibility and vision. We should take a hard look at our religious symbols to see if they belong in our dining halls and house common rooms. Without an educational purpose, they border on being improper. But as long as people are exposed to multiple traditions and learn more about them, go ahead and deck the halls with boughs...
...HUBBLE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS irrelevant as they are beautiful. Suppose our vision were limited to the range of the human eye and the resources spent on seeing farther into the universe had been devoted to improving our own speck of cosmic dust, the earth. How much worse off would we be? JAMES H. REYNOLDS Berkeley, California...
Chirac, 63, a two-time Prime Minister who will preside over the nation until at least 2002, has the reputation of being a pragmatic politician unencumbered by ideology. Yet he appeared to outline something of a vision while campaigning for last May's election, calling for bold reforms to stimulate the economy, heal the divisive "fractures" within French society and find inventive solutions to seemingly intractable problems--the main one being unemployment. The plan called for tax cuts, lower interest rates and job-creating measures...
...reasons. The first is that I think they are generally wrong; the second is that I think a politician should be a leader and not a follower. That means he should base his decisions on the commitments he has made, on his idea of the future, on his vision of the country, and not on public opinion. I have seven years before me and a great determination, so of course it is not the polls that will give me doubts...