Very few of these experiments - with the possible exception of the kibbutz - turned out the way their founders had imagined.

The founders of Imagine Films Entertainment, whose productions have included "The Burbs," "Problem Child," "Parenthood" and "Kindergarten Cop," said yesterday that they had made a six-year production agreement with Universal Pictures.

Gordon Wood, a professor at Brown and historian of early America, agreed that the founders never imagined a culture as secular as ours.

The city's founders imagined Marysville becoming "The New York of the Pacific."

Based on a format adopted from the Ryder Cup, the two founders imagined an annual gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin filled with competitive golf and camaraderie.

But the park's latest transformation efforts are unlike anything its late founder, Henry Hemmerdinger, might have imagined.

But they are still teenagers, living in a city filled with temptations for quick pleasure and easy money that the founders of Pentecostalism a century ago never imagined.

What Israel's founders could not imagine were two things: First, that the United States could be open, pluralistic and tolerant enough to let Jews feel totally at home there and live a safe and vibrant Jewish existence, with the full range of human occupations available to them.

The founders of Imagine Films made a six-year production agreement with Universal Pictures.

The founders imagine the best use of their product or service, the situation that they're organized around.