On his application, he came across as a normal and ambitious teenager, expressing interest in "community service, fun, reference and experience".
Organised alphabetically – three consecutive entries were "bourgeois", "bureaucracy" and "capitalism" – Keywords seemed both madly ambitious and of broad interest in the argumentative Britain of the mid-70s.
Clearly, the news side saw itself at war with people who had minimal interest in ambitious journalism, and the "suits" saw themselves in conflict with sanctimonious and unrealistic idealists.
In 1980, she joined the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund — an affiliation that her opponents tried to milk for controversy but that, for a young, ambitious lawyer with an interest in Puerto Rican issues, was about as unusual as joining the Central Park Conservancy would have been for an environmentally minded one.
In the hope that it will serve as an incentive for contemporary artists to forsake the canvas for the computer keyboard, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is establishing a $50,000 annual competition for Internet art, part of the museum's ambitious plan for stimulating interest in the emerging genre.
This plan was quickly rejected, as there was no interest in an ambitious and expensive post-Apollo space program among the political leadership or the general public.
Cohn is an unrepentant son of a bitch, an almost likable sociopath who takes a "fatherly" interest in the ambitious Joe, encouraging him to become a "Royboy" in Washington, regardless of his wife's wish to remain in Brooklyn.
Today's supply squeeze has heightened interest in two ambitious long-term projects intended to bring gas from Alaska and the Canadian Arctic to the lower 48 American states.
At every opportunity, the Obama Administration has reaffirmed its commitment to pursue transformational policies in each of these fields – and the president pointedly reiterated his intentions this week, even after he had endured intense criticism that his interest in such ambitious domestic policy-making had distracted him from the economic crisis.
At every opportunity, the Obama Administration has reaffirmed its commitment to pursue transformational policies in each of these fields - and the president pointedly reiterated his intentions this week, even after he had endured intense criticism that his interest in such ambitious domestic policy-making had distracted him from the economic crisis.
