Providence, for example, hopes to build affordable housing for 20,000 people by 2012.
HVB, for example, hopes that its property subsidiary will make 40% of its loans outside Germany within four years.
Shell, for example, hopes to build offshore liquefaction plants that could be towed from one gasfield to another, dramatically reducing overheads.
Toni Tassio, for example, hopes there will be a positive reaction at her school, which may allow her to "come up with a gay-straight alliance support group".
Not all intend to settle in Britain; a 40-year-old tailor, for example, hopes to stay here for a year, and then go on and make his home in Liberia.
Fujitsu, for example, hopes to unload its loss-making hard-disk business, but it recently took full control of a joint-venture to sell computers as part of a push into computer-related services.
Some firms, for example, hope to enter the mobile-device market reasoning that such devices are usually replaced by their owners every few years and so do not require a long-life cell.
Metabolix, for example, hopes to switch from growing plastics in bacteria (which have to be fed) to growing them in plants (which will make them out of water, carbon dioxide and sunlight).
Wikipedia's unpaid collaborators, for example, hope to "distribute a free encyclopedia to every single person on the planet in their own language," says the site's mastermind, Jimmy Wales.
Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, a medical device company, for example, hopes to begin selling a product to treat spinal cord injuries, developed at Purdue and tested there on injured pet dogs.
