While dealing with Europe's financial difficulties has been a grim slog for the Continent's austerity-weary citizens and its frustrated policy makers, it is the opportunity of a lifetime for ambitious idea merchants looking for fame.
There are plenty of ambitious ideas for Jamaica Bay, including a much better visitors' center, more pathways and boardwalks, a fully staffed campground for overnight stays, a ferry and water taxis to move people around.
Adams went on to script-edit one of my favourite seasons of Doctor Who, one that sharply divides the show's fans – it is praised for its ambitious ideas and upstart imagination, or dismissed for its childish silliness.
New York during the American Revolution had 25,000 people founding democracy, a moonshot to build a nation," Pishevar said, using the phrase popular here for big ambitious ideas.
In their fullest comments yet about the creative clashes this winter inside "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Bono and the Edge, of U2 — first-time Broadway composers — said they originally embraced Julie Taymor's script and characters for the show but were wholly ill-prepared for putting her ambitious ideas onstage.
For similar reasons, John Kerry's ambitious ideas for addressing climate change and reducing the country's dependence on foreign oil never advanced much beyond his Web site.
But right now, the Obama administration is not leaving room for new or ambitious ideas that could do more.
As Robert G. Kaiser wrote this week in the Post's obituary for Bradlee, Stern — "a wry, irreverent intellectual with ambitious ideas for journalism" — was Bradlee's "most important sidekick".
Whitmer was not the first choice for progressives and in a tough primary battle with Abdul El-Sayed, former public health director for the city of Detroit, she came under attack for not endorsing more ambitious ideas like bringing a single-payer health system to Michigan.
