Sentences with phrase «american dream version»

Defined benefit plans are the classic American Dream version of health insurance: your employer offers a group plan, you make your choices based on what's offered, and you go on your merry way.

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It's no accident that immigrants represent a significant percentage of new businesses in the U.S.. They're eager to build their own version of the American dream.

Tom + Chee began as a dream of two Ohio couples who persisted through all the ups and downs of starting a business until they achieved their version of the American Ddream of two Ohio couples who persisted through all the ups and downs of starting a business until they achieved their version of the American DreamDream.

«Mary Frances and I have built our lives and our families; this is our version of the American Dream.

«It was my Italian version of the American dream,» said Philosophy's Lorenzo Serafini backstage at his show.

Director Jay Roach (Meet the Fockers) avoids easy laughs, and harnesses Moore's spot - on portrayal to find a balance between outrage and empathy for the pious hockey mom peddling a divisive evangelical version of the American Dream.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman set course from Ireland and experience their own version of the American Dream circa the late 19th century.

But while pursuing his version of the elusive American Dream, the

Though label and DVD menu states Disc 2 contains an isolated stereo track of Tangerine Dream's score, the North American version of LEGEND has an isolated mono track of identical re-recorded score cues that appeared on original MCA LP, and Varese CD.

She focuses on the trials and tribulations of the main characters» attempts to adjust to the modern version of the American Dream and their attempts not to appear as F.O.Bs (fresh off the boaters).

Alpha DogThey grew up together in the suburbs of LA, living their own version of the American dream, with every day a blur of partying and looking for the next thrill.

They grew up together in the suburbs of LA, living their own version of the American dream, with every day a blur of partying and looking for the next thrill.

Richie Lanz (Bill Murray), dumped and stranded in war - torn Kabul by his last remaining client (Zooey Deschanel), discovers Salima Khan (Leem Lubany), a Pashtun teenager with a beautiful voice and the courageous dream of becoming the first woman to compete on national television in Afghanistan's version of «American Idol.»

First time filmmaker Dan Makara lets Irwin tell us directly the often poignant story of his own version of the American Dream.

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Like the parents at West Lake Middle School, where I started this story, these parents believe in a version of the American Dream that includes a guaranteed access to a school that will accept their children for who they are and provide a benchmark of education quality that is expected in a country that professes to «lead the world» in all aspects of human enterprise.

Gov. Patrick said all parents deserve the ability to select their child's school and every child deserves the opportunity to achieve their version of the American dream.

Say's stunning immigration story is a version of the American dream that includes adventure and discovery but no sense of arrival.

Ann and Richard, an aspiring, Los Angeles power couple, are already sensing the cracks in their version of the American dream when their life unexpectedly implodes, leading them to brashly run away from home to a Robinson Crusoe idyll.

Personal finance, however, is my passion because, by mastering it, I'm able to achieve my own version of the American Dream.

His paint - chip mosaics scratch the surface of suburban pretense, exploring the compulsion to both expose intimate details of our lives through online social networks, as we simultaneously hide behind the facade of a commoditized version of the American Dream.

In an interview with This American Life from May 17, 2013, Inglis «says conservatives feel like their version of the American dream is under attack, that somehow, parents driving their kids through the suburbs in SUVs to soccer practice are being blamed as the cause of global warming, when in fact, everyone uses a lot of electricity and gasoline.

New tools like down payment protection, which protects the homebuyer's down payment against falling home prices for a certain period of time, give control and flexibility back to the homebuyers allowing them to achieve their version of the American Dream on their own terms.

The group's American - made version of the American Dream got its start in December 2011 when Dudley Powell, an Orlando - based products distributor, opened an email video attachment of an ABC News segment about builder Anders Lewendal's attempt to build a home in Montana using all U.S. products and workers.