But by the time he went back, hoping to record groups like this in the late eighties, Mobutu was gone, Christian Evangelists had cornered the funeral music market, and Kinshasa was full of slick guitar bands playing amorous pop music.
Ryan McGee, who works on analytics for the power train in electric cars at Ford, is using the analytics inside his designs, hoping to look at things like weather, traffic, time of day and local regulations to build choices.
It just wouldn't be much consolation to those who'd been hoping for a switch to a standard like micro-USB -- or, for that matter, to long-time iPhone owners who may have to give up or convert legions of accessories.
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While growth has been much more controlled, my network started to look a lot more like what I was hoping to build from the get go.
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Well, it looks like those hoping to do a clean install of Windows Vista with an upgrade-only edition of the OS may not be entirely out of luck after all, although they'll still have to jump through a few hoops to get it done.
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In 1994, as the Mandela government came to power, Motsepe left the law firm and struck out on his own, hoping to build a business contracting low-level labor like sweeping, where workers use brooms to glean gold dust from the rock surface after industrial mining crews have done their work.
But both campaigns are hoping to energize the undecided voters, like 22 year old Davian Percy.
Firms on the lookout for ways to improve their image and NGOs hoping to bring about meaningful change seem like natural partners.
ABB, the company that arose from the 1988 merger of the Swedish firm ASEA and the Swiss one Brown Boveri, is hoping to get a lot more business like that.
Not long ago, in the paper-based days, when our favorite bands announced their tour schedules, we would camp outside local record stores for days, hoping to snatch up tickets for bands like Van Halen and Duran Duran.
Like a handful of other trans men in North America, Europe, England, and Japan, I began to do public education, to write about our experience, and to educate legislators and policy makers, helping them change the laws, hoping to ease the suffering of others like ourselves who would follow in our footsteps.
Hoping to bring attention and help to players like Zhou, Washburn nevertheless insists his book -- titled "Par for China" -- is not just about golf but about the country seen through the sport.
ExRated.co wants to be more like Yelp, and less like a Better Business Bureau complaint site, and is hoping to attract positive reviews as well.
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It's very scary and I feel like I should not continue hoping to find that special someone.
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Every newspaper is experimenting like mad these days, hoping to avoid extinction, but only the Post manages to wrong-foot itself just about every time it breaks its routine.
But Italy had already issued national residence permits to the migrants, perhaps hoping they would exploit the passport-free Schengen area to slip across to countries like France, where many Tunisians have family.
As a result, the lawyer said, guilty pleas are most likely and companies that choose to litigate are far more likely to win some concessions, like fewer individuals convicted or a lower fine than the DoJ had been hoping to extract.
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The couple are now hoping to expand and they see a future of other outlets like theirs.
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Hoping for anything else is, to quote Friedman again, like trying to design a cat that barks.
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Hoping their veterans age like wine and not become akin to rotary phones in the wireless era, New York counts on the health of a pitching staff closer to AARP than MVP.
So far so good but T-Mobile, no doubt, is hoping to have its ad go viral in big way, like the original wedding dance, which has been seen by 64 million people and counting.
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It would be foolish for the self-defined liberal elite and Democrats hoping to get elected this midterm election to underestimate Beck and forces like the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
But studios are still hoping to convince people to go back to buying DVDs with services like Ultraviolet which lets users store digital copies of their movies in the cloud and access them from anywhere at any time.
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With it, Disney is hoping to amortize the cost of its ABC programming with reruns of shows like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
As a result, the U.S. increasingly looks like a top-notch science fair to companies hoping to get into this slow-moving, but potentially massive, market.
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The leaders are hoping for progress on issues like increased Internet access, "welfare to work" incentives for the long-term unemployed, cutting red tape, and progress towards a single EU financial market, which would mean cheaper borrowing for firms, better returns for savers and cheaper insurance policies.
Still, rising temperatures offer a lot of potential that Greenland is trying to tap into, hoping that farming will prevail here if the infrastructure, like watering systems, is in place.
Instead, like gamblers down on luck at closing time they buy risky stocks hoping to recover all losses.
Trading-oriented investors might use them to buy into an oversold sector, like financials or home builders, hoping for a bounce.
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