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.
Energy investment would go to relatively inexpensive efforts that can have a high impact over the longer term, while forsaking the dream of abundant clean energy jobs arising in the immediate future due to government subsidies.
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We would have a better chance if the second leg was in Tel Aviv, but at least only a 2-1 deficit means that we can still dream of what might be in the future.
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And yet despite all of this, despite the bitterness of the past, despite the difficulties of the present, despite the uncertainty of the future, Dr. King held fast to his dream.
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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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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.
His leadership experience has given him a unique capacity to inspire hope in the promise of the American dream of a boundless future.
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.
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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The reason for that second objective is also the reason for thinking 2011 might, in the history books of the future, be seen as the year when the space cadets' dream finally died.
That is, the investor must either be convinced that the performance he has already received is adequate or that if he stays invested his dream of better performance may still materialize sometime in the future.
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Those issues are so serious that they raise questions about the future of both capitalism, as envisioned by Adam Smith, and the American Dream.
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).
Even with the economy improving, considering the staggering number of people who are out of work and those whose retirement plans have been decimated, buying a home may no longer be a part of the American dream, at least not in the near future.
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More money in your pocket means more opportunity to shape your future and achieve your own definition of the American Dream.
These Dutch theatre school students face a tough future with less cash to fund the industry they dream of playing a role in.
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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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.
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.
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