As a second-generation Filipino-American, in many ways I am the product of an American dream.
For the past several decades, home ownership has been an American Dream.
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In 1992, Jermaine co-produced "The Jacksons: An American Dream, " a TV miniseries based on Katherine Jackson's memoir, which chronicled their rise to stardom.
Formerly an American dream, politicians in their zeal to make housing something for everyone surely wrecked much that was once so dreamy about it.
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These cities have also been homes to an American Dream, albeit a different one: everyday, engineers, business leaders and innovators arrive to create the next great company.
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For Yandell, his wife and many other residents trying to stick it out, the white picket fence of an American dream has faded into a seemingly hopeless suburban nightmare.
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So when it comes to tackling the deficit, or it comes to growing the economy, when it comes to giving every American an opportunity to achieve their American Dream, the American people are demanding the same kind of resolve, the same kind of spirit of compromise, the same kind of problem solving that all these folks on stage have shown.
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But for a key swath of middle-class voters, the federal government especially one helmed by Democrats is more of an obstacle to their pursuit of the American dream than it is an enabler.
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American homeownership -- that's always been such an important symbol of the American Dream, right?
This ability transformed Disney from a common-or-garden media mogul into an embodiment of the American dream, the winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a fixture on the front cover of news magazines.
Throughout the land he saw states and schools, governors and police chiefs, unwilling to accept the onward march of history, unwilling to accept an expansion of the American Dream to include all of its citizens.
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Just as we must put an end to the irresponsible lending and borrowing that created the housing bubble, we must restore the home as a source of stability and an anchor of the American Dream.
Your children and your grandchildren have to have an equal shot at the American Dream.
If hocus-pocus is the order of the day, the American dream may become an illusion.
That would make it the home of an entirely new and more powerful American Dream.
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His stories of rugged frontier lives are part of the cherished identity and the romantic history of the continent an indispensible element of the great American dream.
We still need them to move forward on Project Rebuild so we can have more homes like this, and wonderful families having an opportunity to live out the American Dream.
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The new American Dream is about having an interesting life rather than a happy life.
Allowing workers to place half the payroll tax into such accounts to pre-fund their retirement would bring to fruition Abraham Lincoln's vision of the true American dream by making every worker an owner.
Recently, I read an article by Carl Richards in the New York Times which could be titled Fear and Hoping in Las Vegas: An Insightful Journey through the Collapse of the American Dream.
The sports teams want the American Dream developers to shut down an amusement and water park on the days of their 20 home games during the regular and preseason, people familiar with the negotiations said.
We believe in an America where any child can succeed and pursue the American dream through hard work and a great education.
So does the First Lady and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and every one of us for whom a college degree meant an entry into a new world of possibilities, the American Dream.
An America on the road to ending poverty, with the American dream becoming a new reality for millions of hard-working Americans.
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As our great Nation debates over whether to grant a path to citizenship to undocumented immigrants who have been here for decades, I share my own story of how I became an American, and how it inspires me to help others achieve that same dream.
"It's been 45 years since Dr. King spoke about 'I Have a Dream, ' " said Lenny McAllister, an African-American conservative blogger, referring to the Rev.
Back in its golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, it offered middle-class people, not just techy high-fliers, a shot at the American dream complete with superb schools and universities, and an enviable physical infrastructure.
Although the Nick of the novel arrives at a new and tragic understanding of the American Dream, the Nick on screen can't be more than an earnest observer, since any vestige of the story's tragic sense has been replaced by melodramatic sadness.
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It was a sense that we had an opportunity to bring about meaningful change for those who had for too long been excluded from the American Dream.
In one last attempt to find her, he hires Blomkvist, who has been temporarily discredited in a libel suit, and sets him up as an investigator on the island, a place that no American one-per-cent family would ever dream of owning.
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