Word: visioning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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PATTY ABRAMSON, 55 One of Washington's key providers of start-up money for entrepreneurs with vision, drive and a compelling idea, Patty Abramson knows a thing or two about start-ups from her own experience. In 1989 she left Hager, Sharp & Abramson, which was among the first female-owned advertising and p.r. firms in the capital, to start Abramson Communications. The scarcity of women-owned companies like hers inspired her in 1997 to found the $30 million Women's Growth Capital Fund, the largest venture-capital fund in the eastern U.S. and one of the few to focus...
...also leads to an excessive emphasis on issues. The word focused is used as a compliment these days, but where it means discipline, it just as often suggests tunnel vision. Political chatter to the contrary, I do not think that most people want to listen to speeches devoted to issues at all--or if they do, they quickly grow accustomed to (and bored by) the predictable positions a candidate takes. The "issue" that people never tire of is that of basic national principles and ambitions, the promotion of which, though usually couched in cliches, is eternally engaging because it touches...
...evident in replays of TV interviews he'd given on the convention floor. He had a weakness in his left arm, which occurs in many stroke patients along with weakness in the face or leg on the same side. Ford didn't exhibit two other common symptoms, blurred vision and a sudden, severe headache. But that's not surprising, since symptoms vary among patients...
...then a singer, deep into a nice little career, gets the ton-of-bricks gift of a hit song. It jets up the charts, seeps out of every pickup truck, is hummed in the check-out line at Wal-Mart. And suddenly the singer is struck by a glum vision of the inevitable future: 30 years from now, she'll be singing the same damn song in a lounge in Vegas or Branson...
...That is the spirit of American idealism when it gets into the woods: noisy inaccuracy and ethical contradiction coexisting with high principles - myopia (Roosevelt was incredibly nearsighted) and great vision...