Word: vision
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...pages of the Telegraph and rival newspapers he sells from his central London shop, Pankaj Mehta highlights another reason the expenses scandal hit Labour hardest. Reports of Conservative grandees submitting bills for the upkeep of mansions have reinforced the party's unfortunate image of entitlement and wealth, but the vision of Labour MPs subsidizing their lifestyles is more damaging still. New Labour defined itself as a party that encouraged wealth creation, that in the words of Peter Mandelson, Business Secretary and Brown's de facto deputy, was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich." But it still prioritized the needs...
...question, Amazon is the most forward-thinking company in the book business. If there's a Steve Jobs of books, it's Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos. His vision is defining the way books will be bought and sold and written and read in the digital world - which is to say, the world. The question is whether there will be room in it for anyone besides Amazon...
...When Mousavi was Prime Minister, he oversaw an office that ran operatives abroad, from Lebanon to Kuwait to Iraq. This was the heyday of Khomeini's theocratic vision, when Iran thought it really could export its revolution across the Middle East, providing money and arms to anyone who claimed he could upend the old order. Mousavi was not only swept up into this delusion but also actively pursued...
...that there has been a disturbing rise of bigotry, thinly veiled as nationalism, in Australia in the past decade. But to suggest that this may represent the emergence of a new national ethos is going a bit far. We should remember that former Prime Minister John Howard's rightist vision of Australia was buried in 2007 in an electoral avalanche. Pauline Hanson and her gaggle of xenophobes are now nothing more than a much derided footnote in Australian political history. The vast majority of Australians, irrespective of their ethnicity, regard the actions of the idiots at Cronulla or Newport...
...cars from a bankrupt company that a lot of people don't like right now?" The agency, which also worked on Coors Light's "Wing Man" ads and DirecTV's movie-spoof ads, decided to go with brutal frankness, says Hirshberg, "coupled with an honest and credible level of vision and optimism for the future...