More than a habit of mind, this optimism sprang from deep confidence in the power and future of American ideals.
Harvard University distinguished service professor Joseph Nye, author of The Future of Power (forthcoming), has a detailed analysis of the challenges America faces internally and externally.
This is a captivating look at the power of creativity to shape the future of our country.
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As a fast growing business in the technology industry, we represent the industry and type of company that will power the future job creation engine of the United States.
But EDF was abandoned at the altar on August 1st, after two big British Energy shareholders decided that, in light of the likely future price of power, its offer was too low.
The composite rate can never go below 0%, so even if we experience a prolonged period of severe de flation, the I Bonds will still help protect the future spending power of your investment.
Job candidates are rarely in a position of power as interviewers decide the fate of their future career prospects.
"If the past celebrated lust and greed and love of power, the future will celebrate continence and humility and altruism, " Hamlin Garland said.
Also, we cannot ignore our cyber-infrastructure, such as building a 21st Century wireless broadband system that will power the companies of the future.
Indeed, an interesting question now after all the focus on Facebook, is what current private companies will power the future top of the Midas List.
As Ian Ayres (my colleague in forbes columny) writes in his insightful and delightful Super Crunchers (Bantam 2007), the technologies for assembling and mining huge data sets have converged over the last couple of decades, and they give us remarkable new power to pluck the future out of the past.
When pitching its new line of chips to investors earlier this year, Intel even went so far as to slap an image of the iPhone onto a slide as an example of the sorts of devices future versions of Atom will power.
It was leading the rest of the world into the future with the demonstrative power of democracy and free markets, new technological breakthroughs in automation, computers, communications, energy, medicine, space travel, to name a few.
Resist as some might, the power of one's own data is the future of medicine.
When Intel wants to show investors the kind of devices that will use future generations of even more power-efficient Atom processors, it flashes a slide with an image of an iPhone.
But President George W. Bush's administration has pushed nuclear power as a fuel of choice for the future through various financial incentives, including the "Nuclear Power 2010" initiative launched five years ago, which provides matching funds for the early stages of new plant development, as well as loan guarantees and tax credits offered to new nuclear developers in 2005's Energy Policy Act, sometimes known as EPACT.
Between creating jobs and generating power, the way of our future is nuclear.
Instead, the shooter anticipates the kind of graphics-power future PCs will unlock, giving the game a longer shelf-life than it could have otherwise had.
At just 26 years-old, Lady Gaga has become an outsized influencer of our times and redefining the face of power women in the future.
Even stock prices--which are supposed to reflect the future earning power of the companies they track--don't do a consistently good job of calling a crash or a recovery.
Schlunk argues that undergraduate grades are a strong indicator of future earnings power and that the fact that high-achieving undergraduates are more likely to get a law degree has skewed earnings comparisons.
Then NASA will need a major change of perspective in its goals, the funds to secure the longevity of the U.S. space exploration program and much more (wo)man power to fill the suits of future astronauts.
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It has fundamental significance for UNESCO nowadays, at a time when science has tremendous power to shape the future of humanity and when it no longer makes much sense to design science policy in purely national terms.
Although he shows enthusiasm for the battery project, Gambarota, who now spends much of his time developing micro wind turbines, is sceptical about the future of human-power on a mass-scale.
During his time at Unicom predecessor Commonwealth Edison, Rowe changed the course of the company's future to focus on nuclear power instead of dirtier coal and oil-fired plants. (See "Exelon's Carbon Advantage").
As for Bankston, he was happy to see Digg's users rebel last week in what he calls "a great flowering of civil disobedience, " and he says it should serve as a warning to future censors about the power of the Streisand effect.
Yet in the decline of Western power lie the seeds of hope for healthier relations in the future.
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