But now, in a way that no one could have foreseen, Haiti is benefiting from ambitions blown to the winds by the country's decades of unrest.
The Empire State's observatory might benefit from higher ambitions as well.
"We would have benefited from his ambition.
For all of Richard Williams's grandstanding, for all of his sideline provocations, both Serena and Venus have benefited from his ambitions: they're both successful, rich and, from all outward appearances, relatively happy.
Renaissance Capital's Smith thinks Emdeon, which manages health care payments, should benefit from the Obama Administration's ambition to streamline paperwork.
Sinopoli's long-term ambition to benefit from the fruits of his archaeological studies at Rome University, and to indulge them with a swift retirement from the world of music, was not to be fulfilled; though his schedule for the near future shows no suggestion that he was near to attaining his dream.
But Representative Richard A. Gephardt, a Missouri Democrat who has presidential ambitions, could benefit from having his state deliver him a load of delegates early.
And the reality is that even if we completely fixed our education system, which is, of course, a huge priority and we're falling further and further behind in basic skills like Math and Science and Engineering, even if we fixed that situation, we still will benefit from and need people with the ambition and the skills to contribute to our key industries.
They also suggest that blacks with executive ambitions can always benefit from the employment of disarming mechanisms.
It is obvious enough that as some countries make a transition into a more developed economic state, their universities will benefit from more investment and higher levels of ambition.
There's no shying away from ambition.
