ambition
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The scale of its manufacturing capacity, its move up the value chain, and its state-backed technological ambitions have eroded America’s confidence.
From Barron's
That success is pushing their makers toward a bigger ambition: automating our entire lives.
With Epstein, their societal ambitions were so urgent they failed to be discerning.
His book’s first chapter is aptly called “Advantages,” since coming from nothing gave him an outsider’s perspective—and fierce ambition.
The governor said he hasn’t “gotten in the way of her ambition ever,” and he doesn’t imagine that he would in the future.
From Los Angeles Times
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