For all the Sturm und Drang in the broader economy, a surprising number of Americans are still rushing to get their piece of the American Dream. |
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If these immigrants could succeed, it proved that anyone could realize the American Dream. |
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It is futile because we cannot fully join the ranks and chase what is called the American Dream. |
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As beneficiaries of government largesse, these individuals have somehow hijacked the American Dream. |
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Nobody believes more fervently in the American Dream than he does, yet the dream has somehow eluded him. |
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The Great American Dream in recent times has become somewhat sterile, a colorless and neutral legal administrator of intercommunity conflicts. |
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Well, if the American Dream involves pimping your wife on the Web, then I reckon he's right about that. |
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Several groups found themselves excluded from the American Dream of the white, periwigged, slaveholding intelligentsia of Enlightenment Virginia. |
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Right now, the 27 contestants for the American Dream Girl Calendar Contest are hula hooping in their bikinis to KC and the Sunshine Band. |
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According to the Center for a New American Dream, babies as young as six months of age can form mental images of corporate logos and mascots. |
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The money that drugs generate is their way to achieve the American Dream in a sort of twisted Scarface-type of fashion. |
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In effect, pursuing the American Dream leads to his self-destruction. |
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Wolf is about the American Dream gone haywire, so exaggeration is the name of the game. |
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His is the classic immigrant rags-to-riches tale of that much-sought fantasy, the American Dream. |
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His blood-soaked remake is definitely a hit and has become an important touchstone in hip-hop and rap culture with its inverted portrayal of the American Dream. |
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Read a cautionary tale about the seductive and dangerous power of a charlatan sociopath, featuring goats and the American Dream. |
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These are people who are putting their lives at stake for the American Dream. |
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Both sets of protagonists are torn between the American Dream of fame and fortune and the more comfortable pull to stay true to your station in life and neighbourhood. |
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We were driving with our tour manager in Florida in about 1983, living the American Dream in an open-topped Ford Thunderbird. |
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He is 100 percent opposed to derailing the American Dream by allowing sequestration to be tinkered with. |
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Let us all strive to ensure that all of our children are given the opportunity to achieve the American Dream. |
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To belabor the comparison a bit, the same could be said for the American Dream. |
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The American Dream, or the perception that Americans enjoy high social mobility, plays a key role in attracting immigrants. |
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Workers in this country want change, and the Employee Free Choice Act will provide millions of American workers with the opportunity to achieve the American Dream. |
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From this examplar of that proud marketing concept, the American Dream, you move into the Badlands, a strange, desolate place that could come out of a nightmare. |
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The fund has been under development since March, when Fannie Mae announced its expanded American Dream Commitment. |
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Two of his most recent books are The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream and The Hydrogen Economy. |
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The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis. |
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But over the years this definition of the American Dream has been lost. |
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This permitted the development of the American Dream, a cultural spirit distinct from that of its European founders. |
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For many in the U. S., the American Dream has not come to an end. |
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An American entertainment correspondent was quoted in The Scotsman comparing Boyle's story to the American Dream, as representing talent overcoming adversity and poverty. |
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Time, then, to close the chapter headed American Dream and open your Latin primers at Jeep, the iconic badge of the cowpoke bought by Fiat in the resulting fire sale. |
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Harris for her work in sponsoring the American Dream DownPayment Act, recently passed affordable housing legislation which will directly benefit Florida homebuyers. |
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Miller's dark body of work always exposed the American dream as a nightmare. |
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I believe in opportunity, a level playing field for everyone and the achievement of the American dream. |
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These men were all attending accredited flight schools, trying to achieve the American dream. |
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Although my father has achieved the American dream, I know he always has a lingering thought when he considers his good fortune. |
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We'll help a rising generation gain the skills and the competence necessary to achieve the American dream. |
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This global network of black movers and shakers is an inspiring example of how we can use technology to achieve the American dream. |
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How did the Martinez family manage to achieve the American dream during a period when high taxes were supposedly thwarting that dream? |
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It was a unifying creed for diversity of belief and faith, for the American dream of achieving individual liberty. |
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It's all about being allowed to fulfill the American dream to succeed no matter who you are. |
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A lot of that comes from my own parents, from their own experience here, and their ability to better themselves and achieve the American dream. |
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The public still seems to have an abiding faith in the American dream of achieving affluence. |
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These are the privileged individualists who have already snatched their slice of the American dream. |
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It enabled her to keep her family in comfort and enough luxury to feel a part of the American dream. |
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No one can throw a wrench into family values and the good old American dream quite like he can. |
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The narrative of Gatsby's downfall poignantly exposes the seedy underbelly of the American dream. |
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And the American dream that wealth transmutes success into happiness always ends in bitter disappointment. |
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He's giving back big time, and he is a walking personification of the American dream to me. |
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A generally accepted tenet of the American dream is that a high-quality education is a birthright. |
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The very expanse of his sentences, their twist and torque, is an American dream of plenitude. |
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But in the mid-1960s divorce was a disaster, and people did feel like a failure because their American dream had gone up in smoke. |
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Dome shaped windows are fringed with Native American dream catchers and swathes of bright orange or cream coloured curtains. |
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His people are labourers in the vineyard of the American dream who never got to taste the wine. |
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On stage, he becomes an archetypal embodiment of the debased American dream. |
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Her fear is that of a prisoner, awaiting execution, in the merciless sunlight of an American dream. |
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The Indian American dream is paved with crooked paths, detours, and not infrequent derailment. |
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It's about the people who come to America in search of that elusive thing, the American dream. |
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Owning a home offers a sense of pride, security, and enfranchisement that is quintessential to our stake in the American dream. |
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The play is generally considered to stand alongside the work of Henry Miller for its insightful portrayal of the problematics of the American dream. |
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All of these hallmarks of the American dream are a powerful draw. |
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It will augment the literature units in the secondary curriculum that explore the twenties as a study of the lost generation or the American dream. |
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In this American dream, we are emotionally tied to the people and land of our communities. |
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Such special rights, however, should not justify exclusion from full participation in the American dream of liberty, equal opportunity, and the like. |
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And he knew he could achieve the American dream only by hard work. |
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Well, first of all, they certainly have achieved the American dream. |
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In this American dream, we move where the jobs are to realize social mobility. |
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Papers sent reporters along the old Route 66 in search of the deflated American dream. |
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But just when it looked as if she was about to realise the American dream, she coughed blood into a handkerchief and her doctor diagnosed tuberculosis. |
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It is the American dream, but also the socialist Utopia, the glimmer of hope for the poor, the comforter of the oppressed who yearn for salvation. |
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Their children are deep-fried, drug-soaked numbskulls, the adults hapless lemmings in their SUVs, heading straight into the back-end of the American dream. |
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The characters continued to cheat on their spouses, let money become their obsession, and debated the American dream for the hopes of one day obtaining happiness. |
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Tatum wears the shame of a nation on his face in this quietly devastating portrait of the American dream run amok. |
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He may hail from Kazakhstan, but Borat innately understands the American dream. |
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He returns to these themes in Nine Inches, a collection of stories that unzips the American dream, and pulls out all the stuffing. |
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Michael Moore's false enactment of the working class persona only serves to fetishize the working class and the collapse of the American dream. |
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Activities include tying an Indian turban, writing in Chinese, making a Native American dream catcher and African jewellery. |
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As a professional football player and a small businessman, Clint Didier has lived the American dream. |
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The pursuit of the American dream draws them here, but that doesn't mean it's easy street when they get here. |
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They are the American dream torn asunder, like clean fresh laundry left drying on the clothesline, switchbladed by bored boys of summer. |
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Set in a post-apocalyptic America of plagues and fear, ecological disaster and moral blight, The Pesthouse is a vision of the American dream gone horribly awry. |
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Just redividing a slow-growing pie will not sustain the American dream. |
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