While a few positive exceptions may well exist, there is an abundance of anecdotal evidence related to the academician's fear of lack of openness in UXC-based research, in addition to other basic research ambitions and funding worries.
The larger ambition, a basic rationale for the deal, is the one that is most in doubt, even among supporters of the Compaq merger.
"In my experience, the difference may lie in both the level of ambition and basic personality," says Hochella, whose career mentoring doctoral and postdoctoral trainees has spanned more than 2 decades.
Much of its wider ambitions beyond basic meal deals was positioned around Breadcrumb, a POS service it acquired in 2012 and used as the anchor for its strategy to expand its business not just in restaurants but elsewhere, too.
The shooting of a schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai last year for the supposed crime of daring to want an education shows that Pakistan remains a country in which in some places even the most basic of rights or ambitions can be denied women and girls.
Unlike its basics — which even at their most aspirational, like some heavy athletic-jersey-style T-shirts ($34), are still basic — Superdry's jackets have ambition.
For Bombay, India's financial capital and symbol of the country's ambition, supporting the basic human needs of its citizens is a challenge of mammoth proportions.
Arsene Wenger has grown accustomed to the fundamental questions of ambition, courage and basic goalscoring competence being asked of his Arsenal team at some point in recent seasons, but rarely has he experienced it as early as three games into a campaign that promises so much.
As the CEO of the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Jerry Hildebrand notes, ambition, winning personality, basic intelligence, working hard and commitment to mission are attributes, not skills.
