That collective desire — paired with Mr. Bloomberg's persistent personal ambition — still lacked a public service rationale, but then came the decimation of the New York financial sector.
Two days later, Secretary of State Colin Powell, appearing before a closed hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also cited Iraq's attempt to obtain uranium from Niger as evidence of its persistent nuclear ambitions.
Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance?
There was a nervousness that a startup might overreach itself and promise more than it could realistically deliver but Persistent Peril's ambitions were grounded and are being achieved.
They also show the enduring character of such dreams to create a central archive and to erect a monument to American Jewish life as well as the persistent conflicts such ambitions provoked.
But that probably says more about the persistent failure of political ambition than it does about the value to children of mastering a stringed instrument.
This persistent lack of executive ambition appears to be due to a variety of factors, including the top-cited concern of too much "stress/pressure" because the path to leadership is more difficult for women than it is men.
The business secretary began life in Labour and has never disguised his discomfort about aspects of his party's marriage with the Tories, particularly on immigration policy, fuelling persistent rumours of leadership ambitions.
Workers who joined the American labour force during the Great Depression suffered from a persistent lack of confidence and ambition for decades.There are other social effects, too, such as "full-nest syndrome".
And that is by design, part of a considered effort to address the challenges that it, along with many other museums, face: how to appeal to a new generation in a climate of persistent financial pressure and the ambition to grow, to do more, to expand its audience.
