There remains some disagreement over whether talent-search shows such as the Idol series, America's Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, and Celebrity Duets are truly reality television, or just newer incarnations of shows such as Star Search.

Through the passing of time, all the independent businesses melded into what truly became " America's First Department Store ".

This new generation of information literate citizens will truly be America's most valuable resource ", and to continue working toward an information literate world. Link text

The size and scale of the stockyards, along with technological advancements in rail transport and refrigeration, allowed for the creation of some of America's first truly global companies led by entrepreneurs such as Gustavus Franklin Swift and Philip Danforth Armour.

This building demonstrates Strickland's maturity as an architect, showing that some of America's architects were truly innovating in the Greek Revival.

During 1888, he developed America's first truly vitreous china body.

In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.

America's first great white faced clown was stage star George " G. L.

Loyd is widely acknowledged as one of America's great puzzle-writers and popularizers, often mentioned as the greatest — Martin Gardner called him " America's greatest puzzler ", and The Strand in 1898 dubbed him " the prince of puzzlers ".

For Williams ' fortieth birthday, MacArthur sent him an oil painting of himself with the inscription " To Ted Williams — not only America's greatest baseball player, but a great American who served his country.

According to historian John Cooper, Wilson's tenure set Princeton on the path to become one of America's great universities.

In 1984 Hampton University dedicated a Booker T. Washington Memorial on campus near the historic Emancipation Oak, establishing, in the words of the University, " a relationship between one of America's great educators and social activists, and the symbol of Black achievement in education.

Most of North America's notable elms are Ulmus americana, a fast-growing and long-lived species capable of attaining great size in a few centuries, especially when open-grown.

And in another review, the poet David Meltzer called Patchen " one of America's great poet-prophets " and called his body of work " visionary art for our time and for Eternity.

Freed not only adopted the name but used the recording of a howl to give his early broadcasts a unique character since he was featuring African-American music that was getting a great reception from America's White teenagers.

In his announcement speech, he said " America's a great country, and now I have the opportunity to begin the process, the legal process of filing papers to run for President of the United States.

" Vincent Canby's review for The New York Times praised Martin's performance: " the film has an actor who's one of America's best sketch artists, a man blessed with a great sense of timing, who is also self-effacing enough to meet the most cockeyed demands of the material.

However, she waited too long before entering America's music scene and though great names of the American music industry wanted to introduce her to the United States, she refused commenting that " I took too long to start here ".

It was a great time, when the money rolled in from every Gambino racket in the U. S. and worked its way up to become America's most powerful crime family.

Clevelanders are proud that their city boasts an orchestra that has several times been touted as America's finest, and compared favorably to many of the great orchestras in Central Europe.

; World War II: There is a growing awareness that America's military capability owes a great deal to the nation's strength in science and engineering.

The preacher who spoke referred to Miller as " the last of America's great poets.

Although Marti admired the United States and its society, he thought that U. S. America's " dealings with ' Nuestra America ' left a great deal to be desired ".

During the 1920s she devoted a great amount of effort to promoting a pan-Indian movement that would unite all of America's tribes in the cause of lobbying for citizenship rights and in 1924 saw the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act which granted citizenship rights to many though not all indigenous peoples.

He is America's mayor, and during a period of time of great stress for this country he showed tremendous leadership.

The magazine's politics were liberal and progressive, and as such concerned with coping with the great changes brought about by America's late-19th century industrialization.

:" Its exclusive purpose is to bring the elements pressing for America's entry into the war to their senses by conclusively demonstrating to them if they enter the present struggle they will automatically have to deal with the three great powers as adversaries.

Brewed expressly for and with the personal approval of one of America's all-time great beer drinkers-Billy Carter.

The major issues of the campaign were the economic stagflation, threats to national security, the Iranian hostage crisis, and the general malaise that seemed to indicate America's great days were over.

In the 1960s and 1970s the placement of such buildings in America's decaying downtowns was considered salvation of the city centers, but contemporary city planning is highly critical of such insular environments that " turn their back " on the city streets.

In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami " America's Cleanest City ", for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets and city-wide recycling programs.

The Newseum terrace offers a panoramic view of Washington, DC overlooking one of America's most iconic streets, Pennsylvania Avenue.

Newspapers then reported, based on the questionable wording of an order from J. Edgar Hoover ("... find the woman and give her no quarter "), that the FBI had issued a " death order " for Nelson's young widow, who wandered the streets of Chicago as a fugitive for several days, described in print as America's first female " public enemy ".

for Ugly People ", it featured Attell walking the streets of America's ( later the world's ) greatest ( and some not-so-great ) cities late at night, meeting the people in a haze of ecstatic inebriation.

" She described her gold phase as the " baroque phase ", inspired by the idea being told as a child that America's streets would be " paved with gold ", the materialism and hedonism of the color, the sun, and the moon.

Bisexuality became chic, particularly in America's first gay neighborhoods.

Mission Hills was ranked number 3 on the Forbes list of America's most affluent neighborhoods.

“ The drive to redefine territory and protect boundaries is being felt in neighborhoods of all income levels throughout America's cities.

Today, Tribeca is one of America's most fashionable and desirable neighborhoods and is known for its celebrity residents.

One of America's oldest and most historic neighborhoods, South Boston was formerly known as Dorchester Neck and is today called " Southie " by its residents.

Located directly in the path of gentrification heading westward from the Loop, East Garfield Park was named one of America's most " up and coming neighborhoods " in the March 6, 2007 issue of Business Week.

In 2010, Forbes named downtown Frederick one of America's best neighborhoods.

The park has been nicknamed " America's most historic square mile " because of its abundance of historic landmarks, and the park sites are located within the Old City and Society Hill neighborhoods of Philadelphia.