It looks at things that Americans have always had in common: mobility (the willingness to up sticks and move); immigration; equality of opportunity; and a love of clubs and voluntary associations ("nothing, in my view, deserves more attention," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville).Ideally, all these things work together to create an open, forward-looking society.
Biologist Phillip Sharp of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of NCAB, said Klausner made NCI into "an open and forward looking organization".
Hosting the Winter Olympics in 2006 was supposed to help rebrand Turin as a forward looking, post-industrial city, open to tourists, culture and competition.
They are all coming here because as we prepare to leave the EU we are building a forward looking Britain that is open to the wider world, and tech is at the heart of this.
He says he arrived in Kent with an open mind, looking forward to a challenge.
A healthier response is to be confident and adroit, demonstrating that social work is forward looking and open to innovation and reform, while asserting what it does and can achieve.
I've been lucky enough to be in industrial research labs that were always very forward looking and open.
"In fact, we find the Russian proposals quite interesting, forward looking, and they open the possibility of serious strategic cooperation on missile defense," said Daniel Fried, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs.
"So, Rosie, it's an open hearing, hi, look forward to keeping in touch".
But for Andre Agassi, today was more a day for remembering and reflecting on the last French Open than looking forward to the next.
