• Already India is seeing a mad rush to set up special economic zones--a less ambitious step-- throughout the country.

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  • It is a very ambitious Copa - possibly too ambitious, and there could be problems along the way.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Internationals | Tim Vickery column

  • He laid out a clear and ambitious plan -- a plan that flows from our core principles, the principles we ran on, our core mission that we said we were going to attend to when we took office a year ago.

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  • Unfortunately, the same questions might well be posed today about another aerospace technology in which the United States currently enjoys a decisive competitive advantage -- thanks to a farsighted and ambitious Defense Department program and the congressional support it has long received: the V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor aircraft.

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  • To a particular kind of hyper-ambitious young person, entering into a domestic commitment too early carries a risk: what if you end up yoked to somebody who lacks the stamina to keep up?

    NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

  • The International Air Transport Association ( IATA) last year set itself a long-term, yet ambitious, goal to build a zero emissions aircraft in the next 50 years.

    CNN: Flight of biofuel fancy?

  • He was "very radical, hard-working and ambitious" as a left-wing student in the 1970s, she told the BBC's Gaelle Legroux.

    BBC: Profile: EU Commission chief Barroso

  • The anti-obesity effort to limit sales of sugary drinks was one of a number of ambitious public-health initiatives Mr. Bloomberg has launched since taking office in 2002.

    WSJ: Judge Halts New York City Soda Ban

  • The operation, E-Quest Partners, is a tiny yet ambitious private equity outfit he launched a year ago with his Venezuelan brother-in-law, Alejandro Zubillaga.

    FORBES: La Familia Bronfman

  • These programs offer talented and ambitious A-types the chance to add a dash of do-gooding to their resumes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Cellulosic ethanol is still made in small quantities and a number of once-ambitious startups have gone out of business.

    FORBES: Audi Places Its Biofuel Bets On Joule

  • NASA, plans to launch a more ambitious exoplanet-hunter, called Kepler, in October 2008.

    ECONOMIST: Planetary science: When a world is born | The

  • It is a hugely ambitious project--rivals have called it impossible--for any company.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • If a lot of super-ambitious, ultra hard-working investment bankers suddenly find themselves out of work, odds are they'll reinvent themselves in the green space.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The bright, ambitious A-level student wanted to become a lawyer and was hoping to read law at Cardiff University after sitting his exams that coming summer.

    BBC: Aamir Siddiqi

  • These people also said the download store would be an "interim" step toward what is expected to be a more ambitious cloud-based subscription service compatible with mobile phones built with Google's Android software.

    WSJ: Google Plans Music Service Tied to Search Engine

  • Although Mr. Obama had said in the past that he didn't want to travel to Israel until he could accomplish something concrete, he arrived here with a less-than-ambitious agenda focused more on symbolism and shoring up relationships than on substantive policy.

    WSJ: Obama Begins First Visit to Israel as President

  • The former England captain rejected other offers and signed a five-month contract for the ambitious French club on Thursday in a stunning move that came as the transfer window was starting to close.

    NPR: Beckham Joins PSG And Pledges To Play For Free

  • In March 1972, a plaque he designed with legendary astronomer Carl Sagan was blasted into space on board the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. ( Click here to see the Pioneer Plaque.) A few years later, Drake and Sagan would team up again on a much more ambitious project, attaching a gold-plated record full of music and photos onto the two Voyager probes.

    FORBES: How To Talk To Aliens

  • When France and Germany unveil their plans on Monday, the hope is that there will be enough new commitments from Germany - for example, to a more ambitious version of European bailout fund, the EFSF - to take the rescue plan to the next stage.

    BBC: Germany, France and the ECB

  • What drew Madonna to make a film about an ambitious, hard-lacquered American woman who sought to carve out a place in British society through pure steeliness of character we shall, of course, never know.

    NEWYORKER: Material Girls

  • But the nature of the election campaign and Putin's personal involvement in it point to a more ambitious and longer-term agenda.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: In Russia, a landslide to tyranny

  • Although a former leader of the Communist youth league, he is a slick and ambitious 43-year-old who seems to model himself on Britain's Tony Blair.

    ECONOMIST: A new prime minister steps up

  • The latest twist is a highly ambitious LTE roll-out plan combined with the intention to wind down WiMAX support by the end of 2012.

    FORBES: Sprint Brings More Drama - Verizon Giggles

  • Now we're putting the teams and infrastructure in place to realise the potential of a hugely ambitious and far-reaching programme which will permeate all sectors of city life.

    BBC: 'Super intelligent' 400 CCTV cameras scheme for Glasgow

  • Two investors are taking a gamble on a rare feat in the modern retail-property market: an ambitious redevelopment of a struggling mall in a small city.

    WSJ: Plots & Ploys: Small-Market Mall Makeover

  • The group plans to build 200, 000 a year, the most ambitious production target so far for a pure-battery car.

    ECONOMIST: The electrification of motoring

  • Still, that is cold comfort for the backers of products such as the iCache Geode, a strange and ambitious iPhone contraption combining NFC and e-paper with a reprogrammable credit card that was floated last April.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: Higher stakes, higher ground for crowdfunding, part 1

  • In the A plot, the nine-year-old half brothers Phineas and Ferb fill a summer day with some insanely ambitious project: making a building as high as the moon, a time machine, a roller-coaster.

    NEWYORKER: It��s Good Enough For Me

  • On Monday, the secretary of state described the negotiation as a two-way street, insisting that the more ambitious Stormont is when it comes to a shared future, then the more assistance Westminster will feel able to provide.

    BBC: Bit by bit? Latest approach to tackling sectarianism

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