We are interested in the youth in terms of their own financial capacity, their influence and as potential market researchers, while providing us with consumer profiles and a great capacity for recruiting other young people.

This is a large and complex project and it's very important to do this well in one country to then make the leap to internationalization.

We haven't reached any kind of agreement with local operators yet, but the door is open for them to come in.

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.

The church has been promoting youth activities as well as looking into providing a study-assistance program for potential ministers who may come from Japan and have difficulty in communicating with the people here -- language-wise and culturally.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.