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.

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Bent on living a dream, Linus Hall quit his engineering job at Bridgestone Firestone in 2001.

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Having taken a penalty in the opening minute, the home team got off to a dream start, Harry Hall giving the Hawks an early lead.

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The shark-diving business was the dream of her late partner Jimmy Hall, an extreme-sports enthusiast.

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Tragically, Hall never witnessed his dream.

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"It was always the dream of Steptoe and Edwards when they established Bourn Hall as the world's first IVF clinic, that treatment would be available to all who needed it, " he said.

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So Hall is the man responsible for making such a dream come true.

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For Syracuse seniors Kayla Alexander, Elashier Hall and Carmen Tyson-Thomas, finally getting to play in the NCAA tournament is a dream come true.

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The hard-edged, almost hyperreal cinematography, by Conrad L. Hall, and the editing, by Tariq Anwar and Chris Greenbury, shift back and forth between dream and actuality with mesmerizing beauty.

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