Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal audience member and programmer, I enjoy a personal vision. Which offers something fresh and yet recognizable to a typical audience member...
...personal audience member and programmer, I enjoy a personal vision. Which offers something fresh and yet recognizable to a typical audience member...
Welcome to the world of the incredible shrinking word. Fading sight is a common sign of aging, as are a host of more serious vision problems such as macular degeneration, glaucoma and cataracts. Others have been here before, of course. But because baby boomers are arriving in droves, these difficulties are getting an unprecedented amount of attention. Medical science has developed impressive techniques using lasers and corneal implants to correct vision defects. Some people, however, still need bigger type in order to read comfortably--and the publishing industry is coming to their rescue...
Traditionally, large-print books have been a sleepy area of publishing. But, according to the Lighthouse International, 17% of all people age 45 and older--about 13.5 million Americans--report some form of vision impairment. By the year 2010, when boomers will all have reached age 45, that total will increase to 20 million--a number that has not escaped publishing houses. "There's been a huge growth in the number of titles available," says Fred Olsen of Thorndike Press, the world's largest publisher of large-print books. "The number has probably doubled in the past five years...
...have become a Nazi-dominated nightmare. That the world witnessed instead the triumph of democracy, the defeat of totalitarianism (including the downfall of Stalin's own empire) and the emergence of new nations--not least the rebirth of Israel--must be attributed to Churchill's indomitable leadership and prophetic vision. --Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel...