"Deep inside my dream is to win a Slam and deep inside I know I can make it, " Monfils said.

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But in November his chancellor of the exchequer, the ever-clever Gordon Brown, all but deep-sixed that dream.

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But such a treatment may be hard to develop because the DREAM gene works deep inside cells.

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"America likes to think of itself as a land of equality and opportunity, the so-called American dream is very deep to our sense of identity, " he said.

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It will be years before we know whether Karl Rove in 2004 achieved his dream of engineering a deep shift in American party politics.

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Mr Robertson and his crew came to believe a pipe-dream: the preservation of their independence with the chance to dip into Dresdner's deep pockets whenever they needed to.

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