The evidence to date suggests we are falling short of that goal.
Are you satisfied that the U.S. ranks fifteenth in the world in broadband per capita and that we are falling further down the ladder every year?
But we are falling shamefully short of meeting our ambitions.
"These are in reality sideshows in Washington that we have allowed to take centre stage in our country - and as conservatives, we are falling into the sideshow trap, " he said.
Are we falling in love with the anonymity and random connections of the early days of the Internet all over again?
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Yet we are still in danger of falling behind China and other nations that are competing aggressively for leadership in these technologies.
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But we have to understand that when it comes to some key issues like energy, we are at risk of falling behind.
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In government, business, and society, we are now rising and falling together.
Now, we are actually -- unfortunately, our students are falling behind in math and science, internationally.
So essentially what we said is, how do we provide some immediate assistance to seniors who are falling into the doughnut hole, and then how do we ratchet down the cost to seniors each year so that by the time we get to 2020, the doughnut hole is completely eliminated?
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"We have 10 sleds that are essentially falling apart, showing serious wear and tear, " Holcomb said.
Too little investment in a competitive infrastructure or an education system that works for our children and we risk falling behind countries that are making these investments right now.
But the great majority of people we are seeing have not behaved in a reckless manner, they are simply falling over.
For one thing, he public will not take the idea of expanding workfare seriously while we are 25 million jobs short of full employment, and real wages are falling.
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"In public, the SNP desperately insist the boom years are ahead, but in private we know they are deeply concerned that oil revenues are volatile, unpredictable and falling, " he said.
Wages and salaries, which we track each day in real time, are falling slightly sequentially, mostly because Wall Street players are getting smaller bonuses.
And then we return here to focus, as I mentioned, with 46 other countries, on locking down any vulnerable nuclear material over the course of the next four years to ensure that we are not faced with that kind of material falling into the hands of a terrorist organization.
"Even though many of the children we help go to school, many of them are falling behind, because education just isn't seen as important, " said Mr Calixto.
If we are to believe all the sky-is-falling claims of environmental activist groups, it is time for them to put their money where their mouth is and support natural gas production.
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If credit was the issue we might expect spreads to be falling, but they are widening.
As long as there are families working harder but falling behind, we've got more work to do.
Why is support for social democratic parties falling everywhere in Europe, just when we are in a recession?
Americans are falling short in education, even after we spend much more than countries that beat us on testing.
He warned, "we cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people".
With projected federal spending topping 34 percent of GDP and the known politically acceptable levels of federal tax revenues falling below 20 percent of GDP, we are between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
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Global inequality is indeed falling and as we can see the formerly poor are getting rich.
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If we are a nation of savers, interest rates tell us that by falling.
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How can we expect our kids to do their best in places that are literally falling apart?
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