The success of America's mutual funds in promoting private investment in stock and bond markets has become the envy of the world.So it came as a real shock in September when Eliot Spitzer, New York's ambitious, boat-rocking attorney-general, first accused big mutual funds of illegal trading practices.
The campaign of Senator John Kerry shares a lawyer, Robert Bauer, with America Coming Together, a liberal group that is organizing a huge multimillion-dollar get-out-the-vote drive that is far more ambitious than the Swift boat group's activities.
His most ambitious reclamation effort was "Show Boat," by Kern and Oscar Hammerstein 2d, which he restored to its original length of nearly four hours.
Three of the sport's most ambitious entities -- Quokka.com, SailNet.com and Boats.com, which was launched just two weeks ago -- have spent millions of dollars building and staffing their respective sites.
There was also an ambitious mullet haircut of a dress with boat neck and crisscross straps — very "business in the front, party in the back".
By promising repeatedly to "stop the boats", he has set himself a very ambitious key performance indicator should he be elected prime minister.
Dorade's owner, Matt Brooks, has a more ambitious goal of racing his yacht in all the great ocean races the boat won in the 1930s and '40s.
He saw the club change from the preserve of Vanderbilts and Morgans to a place where an ambitious and skilled sailor could make a name for himself on a modest boat.
"The boat only averages five knots," he says with a laugh about the ambitious 11,000-mile itinerary.
As Congress spins its wheels with endless debate over immigration, an ambitious venture based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is trying to chart a more productive course aboard a 600-foot boat, or possibly a barge.
The unfolding account of the evacuation of Dunkirk inspired his most ambitious embroidery: a sort of modern-day Bayeux tapestry, 13 feet long, which told the story of men in boats being saved by the sea.
