Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future. Ma Bell wants to be your sole communications provider again, just 15 years after regulators broke up AT&T's telephone monopoly. A major difference this go-round is that there's no monopoly. Another difference is that we're talking about much more than your phone. The vision described above, of lower cost and simpler billing for a whole complex of telecommunication services, could become reality in only a year or two--after billions of dollars in hardware upgrades. AT&T's dynamic CEO, C. Michael Armstrong, who took over in November 1997, is out to win your...
...setting the pace, and Armstrong's vision is playing well on Wall Street: AT&T's shares--the most widely held in the U.S.--are up 65% in five months. After years of tepid growth, earnings should build 20% a year starting next year, analysts...
...during Maxim's short life, its editorial vision has boosted its circulation over 500%. The magazine is now guaranteeing advertisers a circulation of some 950,000 copies, which means it has leapfrogged past Details, its most direct competitor for twentysomething guys (circ. 500,000), as well as titles aimed at older fellows, like GQ (circ. 700,000) and, of course, poor old Esquire (circ. 650,000), which was probably the greatest magazine of the 1960s but has since become to men's magazines what Turkey is to NATO...
...there are some things that Harvard cannot give its students, that it must rely on their inner strength, their character, their integrity and their vision and imagination to provide. We can provide the foundations and the raw materials from which to build a life, but students must make that life for themselves. An enduring love for another human being is among life's greatest joys, but it requires both good fortune and hard work. I wish that happiness for every student...
...World War II idea that fanciful poetry is nolonger appropriate, associating fairy tales forthe dead with "a handful of herbs," "needles byrustling / and the faint threads of fragrances":concrete instances of the sleepy and fantastic innature that persists in spite of human history.Herbert would honor the dead with his vision, or"our Ardennes forest," the line which closes thepoem...