The shift from a vision of future growth and empowerment to one of near term contraction has had its impact on the spirit of volunteerism that Ms Yon illustrates, she thinks.

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"A Vision of the Growth Process", by Arnold Harberger.

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And he has done so as part of a larger vision that stresses tax reform for faster growth, spending restraint to prevent a Greek-like budget fate, and a Jack Kemp-like belief in opportunity for all.

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He has built one its most famous and successful companies through relentless, aggressive growth-seeking risk-taking, while keeping to a vision of an internet-connected world.

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Last year, he had a growth surgically removed from his brain, and, because the growth was lodged near a tangle of optic nerves, he lost the vision in one eye.

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And we attribute that growth to the clarity of our vision for the future, as well as a committed group of stakeholders that have engaged with us, and a new manufacturing technology that all the team at Modumetal believe is going to change the world.

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