An indifferent student, Mr Reagan had hoped only for a job selling sporting goods and summers lounging round as a local lifeguard.
It would be sombre news indeed, not only for Mr Adams but for all those who have hoped and worked so long to lead Northern Ireland into the promised land of peace and compromise.
The fall of the colonel marks only the beginning of a hoped-for political, economic and moral renaissance.
The minimum wage has been put up (though by only 4%, half of what trade unions had hoped for).
Mr Quinlan and his colleagues have dropped their prices thousands of dollars, and have still recruited only 300 riders, not the 1, 000 they hoped for.
Only a fraction of the 500, 000 Mr Sondhi had hoped for showed up.
One would have at least hoped for tech that surpassed current consoles, even if only by a small margin.
This led TI to report second-quarter earnings of only 11 cents a share, significantly lower than Wall Street had hoped for.
In the Diet session that ended on Wednesday he managed to win approval for only one-and-a-half of the four big initiatives he hoped to pass.
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They had hoped to force Game 7 back in Los Angeles on Sunday only to lose four consecutive games for only the third time all season.
The disclosure is likely to infuriate News Corporation and the chief executive of its European and Asian operations, James Murdoch, who expected and hoped that the deal would be assessed only in Brussels by the EU competition regulator and only for its impact on the competitive landscape.
Originally the San Francisco researchers had hoped to do a comparative study of different agencies' programmes, but for this project only Compassion chose to take part.
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