This was the American dream and the future seemed wide open.
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As an elementary school principal, Leonidas Nikas is used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future.
We had the freedom to see whatever we wanted, say whatever we wanted and dream about what we wanted to do in the future.
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Examples range from the merely annoying (eg, a proposed code for nurseries in Colorado that specifies how many crayons each box must contain) to the delusional (eg, the conceit of Dodd-Frank that you can anticipate and ban every nasty trick financiers will dream up in the future).
More money in your pocket means more opportunity to shape your future and achieve your own definition of the American Dream.
On the flip side, for younger professionals and the unemployed, these questions have become equally paramount in a crowded job market, that leads many to the inevitable conclusion: Pursuing a career that is rewarding both financially and personally might have to remain a dream stowed away for the future.
The corporate equivalent of science fiction, dream cars made people believe that the future was speeding toward them, and that the present was swiftly receding.
You know, it's really kind of ironic, because part of the American dream has always been you work hard today to build a better future and to make it better for your children and your grandchildren.
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Since then, I have consulted for and coached scores of entrepreneurs whose most compelling dream was to create a better future.
She said all humans had the fundamental "right to dream" and described how her "early years proved to be formative for my future work as a writer and activist".
Gen LaGreca is the author of the award-winning medical thriller, Noble Vision, and of the forthcoming historical novel, A Dream of Daring, which explores the great power struggle and clashing visions for the future in mid-19th century America.
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We will rebuild the American Dream for our middle class and put the American economy on a stronger footing for the future.
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As we continue to confront strategic challenges and fiscal austerity, my hope for the future is that the sense of duty our servicemembers and their families exhibit every day inspires the leaders of this nation to have the courage to do what is right, to achieve the American Dream, to give our children a better life, and to build a more secure future.
People need to wake up and begin to demand fiscal accountability from institutions of higher learning so that future generations have the ability to access higher education and therefore the American Dream.
Those issues are so serious that they raise questions about the future of both capitalism, as envisioned by Adam Smith, and the American Dream.
And we refuse to believe that our politics are too broken to make the energy future we dream of a reality.
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Choose a potential college wisely that will provide the type of experiences in and out of the classroom that will prepare you for your future, no matter what that dream is.
For starters, the government has set up the "Ubiquitous Dream Hall" -- a dreamily named showcase of the future home, complete with robot butler and a refrigerator that orders any missing food items on the spot.
Nokia's dream phone of the future may at the moment be nothing more than a few plastic mock-ups and a lot of imagination, but it clearly has a powerful sway over the researchers who conceived it.
They all came pursuing the American dream, looking for a better future not only for themselves but for their families, but found themselves culturally and socially unequipped to accomplish their goals.
Even as the future has aged, these concept cars continue to fascinate, as do the dream cars conjured by Chrysler and Ford.
We want to stop repeating the mistakes of the past and begin building a better future -- one that honors old traditions and also welcomes every single Native American into the American Dream.
Number one: I am going to keep fighting every single day, every single hour, every single minute, to turn this economy around and put people back to work and renew the American Dream, not just for your family, not just for all our families, but for future generations.
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