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.
This has been discussed before as a grand dream for the future.
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).
Which is why the president, in a speech on May 30th that was meant to be about European defence, brushed aside Mr Fischer's federal idea as a dream for the distant future.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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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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His leadership experience has given him a unique capacity to inspire hope in the promise of the American dream of a boundless future.
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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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.
While the company has been focusing on its core, as the economy begins to recover, Dream Arcades will expand beyond its four basic models in the near future.
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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.
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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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.
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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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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Even as the future has aged, these concept cars continue to fascinate, as do the dream cars conjured by Chrysler and Ford.
Those issues are so serious that they raise questions about the future of both capitalism, as envisioned by Adam Smith, and the American Dream.
It's the future consumer base that brand managers dream about, but nobody is buying yet.
For the future, Carlo Cracco does not dream about getting his third Michelin star, like his mentor Marchesi, or opening restaurants all over the world, like Alain Ducasse.
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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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.
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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