He took the head coaching position at the University of Notre Dame in 1959, realizing a longtime ambition to return to his alma mater.

After ten years working in a bank, a succession of part-time jobs enabled him to satisfy his longtime ambitions to go motor racing.

Mason, who overcame every adversity imaginable to play for the Knicks, watched as his longtime ambition took an unwanted detour.

For nearly two years, Lokar lived his longtime ambition of playing American college basketball while earning a degree.

Mr. Gelb, who once worked as an usher at the Met, has made no secret of a longtime ambition to become the Met's impresario.

For Mr. Cortes, the federal fund fulfilled a longtime ambition.

Reluctant to become a marketing executive, she postponed a business career to pursue a longtime ambition of television reporting.

In 1943, he joined Fox and achieved his longtime ambition to direct, with a 1946 Gothic chiller, "Dragonwyck."

Earlier, Mr. Isaacson was plucked out of the job after two years to fulfill his longtime ambition of editing Time magazine.

What American viewers are unlikely to see anytime soon is two-way interactivity with programs through the television set, a longtime ambition of broadcasters and advertisers.