Only not in the way anyone ever expected, even the most optimistic on the future of US-Russia.
While his works will be his connection to the scholars of the future, those of us who were blessed by his presence and care are forever better for having shared in his example of how a man lives.
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But, the report adds, questions about the global economy, governance, evolving methods of conflict, regional spillover, new technologies and the future role of the US could dramatically impact the global picture over the next 20 years.
There is, of course, wariness over the impact of sequestration and substantial disagreement over the future course of the US economy, but I read an awful lot of economic commentary and the general discourse has shifted out of crisis-mode to business as usual.
President Barack Obama has welcomed his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, to the White House to discuss the future role of the US in Afghanistan.
Some say that Latinos, in fact, are the future of the US, noting that by 2050 they will represent close to 3 in 10 of all US citizens.
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It was far removed from the big news stories we kept returning to - the future of the Eurozone, the US presidential election and the alarming state of the global economy - but it packed an enormous emotional punch.
If the Model S represents the future of the automobile, sign us up.
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As one banker said to me, it feels a bit like the nerve-wracking weekend in September 2008 when the future of Lehman Bros, the US investment bank, was in the balance.
But the real question remains: What does the Dow tells us about the future of the economy?
They are, in my opinion, the best drivers going into the future for all of us to benefit from.
I'm convinced that the future of entertainment places us squarely in the middle of the action, just as much a part of the story as our children are today when they strap on a holster and play cops and robbers or pick up that Barbie and ask us to be Ken.
Adjustable rate mortgages exploded onto the scene offering us the opportunity to prosper from correctly guessing the future movement of interest rates but requiring us to comprehend the financial gyrations of these loans.
No doubt that's true, but for those of with no pretensions about making billions or even millions in the future, can any of us say with a straight face that what we learned in college applies to the jobs we do as adults?
The alarming news of the present, raised to a level of continual urgency, has taught us to think of the future in terms of continual catastrophe.
But think back: for the past 30 years, as computers swept through business settings, geeks from the IT department have been telling the rest of us about the paperless office of the future.
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"I think this is the right time to sort out Europe's problems, sort out the eurozone problem, defend your national interest, and look to the opportunities there may be in the future to repatriate powers back to Britain - and obviously the idea of some limited treaty change in the future might give us that opportunity, " he told a news conference.
For Intel, the car of the future would come with a myriad of technologies to help us communicate and manage time and other resources more efficiently.
We've broken the entire thing down for you -- we're not kidding when we say this will affect how the internet works for all of us in the future, so grab a snack and head past the break for the whole story.
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Yet the Bush administration does not support substantial government help for US auto companies similar to the cash bailouts to help ailing US airlines, so the future of some plants rely on state-level intervention.
If we examine the facts with an open mind, if we consider the long-term ramifications of the choice we make in the upcoming election and how it will affect future generations, each of us has the potential to be a swing voter.
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All of which leads us to contemplate the future of wind in the United States, particularly on the east coast.
Mr. Secretary General, on behalf of us all, thank you for convening this meeting to address a task that must be the work of all of us -- supporting the people of Libya as they build a future that is free and democratic and prosperous.
The effect has been so widespread that marketing now ranks as one of the most popular undergraduate majors in the US, and a wealth of future ad men has flooded the job market.
However, she and Mrs Clinton, as the future US secretary of state, will have to work closely together in the Obama administration.
To the future that beckons all of us.
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With the prospect of mild economic growth in the US for the foreseeable future and high unemployment, the attitude of consumers (though they may be making purchases) may very well still be negative.
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And as they improve, the machine-based tutoring technologies will become good enough for those who could or would have paid full price or changed up their schedule to connect with a human tutor, such that machine-based tutoring may well be the norm for many of us as a prime mode of learning in the future.
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They also highlighted the enormity of the challenges facing the US and their coalition and Iraqi allies as they look to the future of the country.
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.
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