Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irritation quickly melted into a vision of a road I could call my own. I dreamed of a highway that would embarrass Bette Midler's highway. I would set up lawn chairs and an aboveground pool and turn the shoulder into some kind of make-out spot. I would ride up and down on my motorcycle like Peter Fonda, only without Dennis Hopper, because he annoys me. Sammy Hagar would play on weekends...
...have a coherent foreign policy right now," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "We tend to rely on short-term tactical responses to crises as they arise, but there's no sense that our responses to situations such as Iraq or Kosovo are governed by a long-term strategic vision...
...LOOKED AT THE OFFICE SPACE above his restaurant and had a vision. He saw a fountain of booze and a windfall of cash. So, he built a bar. Thus was born The Lounge and the legend of the Kong as we know it today. From the beginning, the foundation of that legend has been the Scorpion Bowl, a tub of fruit punch, maraschino cherries, orange slices, ice and a dash of vodka. Every night, for the past 20 years, mature adults have gathered to suck on three-foot straws as if those straws were their mothers' teats. Indeed, since...
Horowitz said the Left believes in "a fantasy, a crypto-religion. It doesn't believe in a divinity, but in itself." The Left's vision, he said, "is about transformation, to achieve a heaven on earth...
...late 1997 Ballard, now a multimillionaire, retired as chairman of his company, but he's confident that his successors can fulfill his vision. He has already turned many doubters into believers. Science colleagues who were once "embarrassed to be seen with me at professional symposia," he says, now call upon him to give speeches. "Be impatient," he counseled students at British Columbia's University of Victoria as he accepted an honorary degree last year. "Challenge the normal. Dare to be in a hurry to change things for the better...