In interviews, several of the authors and other experts said there were few signs that major industrial nations were ready to engage in an ambitious quest for clean energy.

Once approved, the plans would be another victory in the ambitious quest for reinvention in the Bronx, where eyesores are increasingly supplanted by new development.

Pippin tells the scholars of his dreams to find where he belongs ("Corner of the Sky"), and they happily applaud Pippin on his ambitious quest for an extraordinary life.

There she met and married Pierre Curie, a brilliant and innovative if quite unworldly physicist, who was to set aside his own work to help in his wife's ambitious quest.

Recently, the school has embarked on an ambitious quest to secure an International Baccalaureate program, with the class of 2012 as the first graduating class.

For another collector, Bobby Sullivan, it is the more accessible Triumph brand, a staple of British-bike enthusiasts, that inspires devotion - and an ambitious quest.

At the root of the problem was the depletion of its endowment in an ambitious quest for growth.

These ambitious quests reflect the renewed optimism sweeping technology centers like Silicon Valley and fueling a nascent Internet boom.

But it is also a year behind schedule on its ambitious quest to build a new class of chips.

IN the nation's ambitious quest to bring information technology to the practice of medicine, state governments are beginning to play a critical role in shepherding new systems into hospitals and doctors' offices, health experts say.