But he also sketches a portrait of a place that is not just a city, but an idea, and a dream.
Anschutz has given Leiweke the latitude and capital to build AEG out of nothing but an idea for a sports arena.
"Twenty-five years ago, my friends and I started with nothing but an idea--that we could harness the power of the PC to improve people's lives, " Gates says earnestly.
Not a completely fair test - I had a six lane highway virtually to myself on EE's 4G while 3G networks are becoming congested - but an idea of what the future promises.
This is not meant to be an exhaustive checklist, but should give you an idea of what to look out for.
More commonly one or two people might have an idea but then recruit a group to help execute the idea (because ideas are worthless without execution).
But they give an idea of what is needed, and cannot be supplied locally.
But that's an idea that came out of the Business Council that we've been able to execute.
But here's an idea: Tear up those contracts, negotiated when global competition didn't much matter, and start over.
Consider how dotcom mania showered wealth on every jaunty entrepreneur with the glimmering of an idea but not a clue about earnings.
But to give you an idea, this past year (2010-2011) our freshman admit rate was 18% and our transfer rate was 11%.
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But such an eminently sensible idea suffers from a terrible weakness: Alitalia would be deprived of the help that it eagerly awaits.
But the rationale behind an idea like "Meatless Monday" is crystal clear.
He says he can't predict whether the trend will continue in future years, but he does have an idea about the next few months.
Through iteration entrepreneurs seek not to kill an idea but to make it better, and this happens through an anticipated cycle of pivoting and adapting.
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Still others argue that biofuels are fine as an idea but are beset by a tangle of subsidies, tariffs and production targets that needs unravelling.
But the idea of an "enemy of the public" can be traced all the way back to the year 68AD, when the Roman Senate declared Emperor Nero a "hostis publicus".
But the idea of an enumeration of particulars which neither explain nor qualify the general meaning, and can have no other effect than to confound and mislead, is an absurdity .
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What you see over and over are reports of people sitting around the kitchen table night after night and month after month and year after year trying to think up an idea but never doing anything.
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It may be hard to remember, but Republicans used to be an idea machine.
But the episode actually has an idea, namely, what happens to people working together in isolated, stressful conditions?
But it sounds like an agreeable idea and the Tories are targeting kids with proposals for a similar set-up, today.
Twitter was but a year old and Van Poppel just 17 at the time, but the novel idea drew an overnight following.
"I was not conscious about diet before but now I have got an idea to eat a useful amount only, " he said.
But the idea developed into an upscale, sit-down restaurant with candles, cloth napkins and prices to match (chefs set their own prices).
But an earlier version of this idea, known as MedPAC, flopped because Congress simply ignored even worthy ideas that proved politically inconvenient.
So it will be interesting to watch whether or not car makers can not just iterate on an idea, but produce something completely out-of-the-box.
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