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...great nations of every age have consistently done well because of the values listed in the report. Would America have succeeded without the ambition of its founding fathers or their vision of the future (lessons 1 and 5 respectively)? Lesson 4 is a little more than a reflection of the frugal prudence that initially made the West so successful. And education and age care (lessons 2 and 3) have always been key to social stability and progress, no matter where you go. You could witness all those values in FDR's New Deal. The difference between modern America and China...
...platform; both were hastily put together and poorly thought through. "Sarkozy's problem is that when he promised 'rupture' with the past during his campaign, he built expectations that go farther than merely revolutionizing the language and methods of governing by actually conceiving and shaping a new face and vision of France," Muzet says. "In many ways, Sarkozy reflects the contradictions of the French themselves: demanding both free markets and social job protection, wanting modernity and tradition, and wanting fast results with no pain. But those are the very hypocrisies voters elected Sarkozy to combat with his own viable vision...
...colossal expectations. The movie industry hopes its immersive special effects spark a big-screen renaissance. Fans crave the next Star Wars. It's a heavy burden, even for a man who seems to enjoy doing only things that are hard. Cameron first laid out his vision for the technology he would use in the film in a digital manifesto in the early 1990s; he then labored to perfect it over the course of a decade and a half, creating cameras that let him peer into virtual worlds and pushing for the industry's adoption of a digital 3-D format...
...them - Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand - have shown marked progress since their inception. Small states like Kerala in the south and Haryana in the north, both with populations under 30 million, boast some of India's highest development indicators. Backers of further decentralization even point to the original, idealistic Gandhian vision for India - of a republic brought together not by a strong central government, but an "ocean" of egalitarian and self-sufficient villages...
...founders’ close friendship and dedication to their project is evident from their enthusiasm. Bick describes Winston as a director who leads by example. “At every point, Winston’s always trying to come up with a bigger and grander vision,” he says...