Word: vision
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...insisted on it. The scene is from the actors' forthcoming film Message in a Bottle, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, in which Costner plays Newman's son. "I wanted to stage it the way I remember my dad cutting my own hair," says Costner, who offered his vision to the film's director Luis Mandoki. "These two guys are bachelors and are not willing to invest money in someone cutting their hair--they're not worried about the cosmetic aspects of their lives. And even though the father and son have a cantankerous relationship," Costner adds, "this scene gives...
...vision would help create a middle class in the U.S., one marked by urbanization, rising wages and some free time in which to spend them. When Ford left the family farm at age 16 and walked eight miles to his first job in a Detroit machine shop, only 2 out of 8 Americans lived in the cities. By World War II that figure would double, and the affordable Model T was one reason for it. People flocked to Detroit for jobs, and if they worked in one of Henry's factories, they could afford one of his cars...
...problem was that for too long they worked on only one model. Although people told him to diversify, Henry Ford had developed tunnel vision. He basically started saying "to hell with the customer," who can have any color as long as it's black. He didn't bring out a new design until the Model A in '27, and by then GM was gaining...
...also the architect of what has become nationwide banking in the 1990s--although parochial interests prevented him from realizing it in his lifetime. His great vision was that a bank doing business in all parts of a state or the nation would be less vulnerable to any one region's difficulties. It would therefore be strong enough to lend to troubled communities when they were most in need...
That same model is applied today in international banking. And his vision has been playing out on a national scale for the past 20 years. Fittingly, the first bank in the U.S. to have branches coast to coast is that same Bank of America, which accomplished the feat just this year through its $48 billion merger with NationsBank of Charlotte...