His own reforms, such as introducing a simplified, single-rate foreign-exchange mechanism, private banks and mobile phones, remain on the drawing-board.
On October 20th, therefore, the Commerce Department sent the plan's authors (now, sadly, minus Dr Postel) back to the drawing-board.
This is significant because car companies now want to bring new models from drawing-board to showroom in less than two years.
They showed a lot of heart, but we have to go back to the drawing-board and make sure we don't make these mistakes again.
Designed both as a rental vehicle and as a temporary habitat, it also runs on a technology hydrogen power which is barely off the drawing-board and looks outlandish.
That means it is back to the drawing-board for theoreticians.
But it is hard to see how any drawing-board initiatives at this stage are going to inspire and unite a sceptical public, given the tangled web of who owns what, and where.
Apart from an ancient aluminium complex, Montenegro's main industrial hope lies on the drawing-board: a chain of hydro-electric plants that could supply power to Albania and Greece and across the Adriatic to Italy.
Before crawling his way out of his mother's womb in the film's opening sequence he had to endure four contentious years making the leap from his (French) creator's drawing-board to France's cinema screens.
The result is that, although developers often promise to include low-cost housing as part of new developments, the expensive houses generally get built first because they are the most profitable, and homes for poorer families stay stuck on the drawing-board.
They certainly have the concept on the drawing board - it's called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFirst.
So the transport minister was forced to perform a humiliating volte face and go back to the drawing board - at a cost for the taxpayer which may well run to hundreds of millions of pounds.
That's not to say there was any creative inspiration going on here -- surely the Z10 was on the drawing board long before the iPhone 5 was revealed -- but the visual similarities can't be ignored.
This failure should lead us back to the drawing board to re-design the international monetary system, reversing the trend that prevailed during the 20th century.
That led her to launch HopeLab, a non-profit that took Re-Mission from the drawing board to an actual product.
Speaking broadly, Frank said he envisioned a plan that would include some sort of relief to states, money for infrastructure projects that are already on the drawing board, and middle-class tax relief.
"All I can do is absolutely promise that these stories were just daft ideas that never - and would never have - got off the drawing board, " he wrote on his blog.
But, with its system-of-systems modernization approach, branded as FCS, moving from the drawing board to the testing field and its first spin-out of new capability to be integrated with the current force occurring next year, the Army is laying the groundwork for success.
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So far, the device--which electrifies molecules of benzene, allowing electrons to flow through and not interfere with one another--only exists on the drawing board.
Plans for further hypothecated anti-pollution taxes are now on the drawing board.
Now that we're at kind of a new stage in health care reform -- and I don't know if you'd be willing to say it's back to the drawing board but it is a new stage -- is the President going to exert more leadership now?
Besides, say the Americans, the Sagarika is still on the drawing board, whereas the Ghauri has been test-fired.
Court of Appeals agreed to postpone the law and it ruled last week two-to-one to make EPA go back to the drawing board.
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Paris-based Sanofi-Synthelabo (nyse: SNY - news - people ) was sent back to the drawing board and returned with a trial that took a more conservative approach, asking for approval only as a second-line medicine.
Even the 94-year-old architecture legend Philip Johnson has one on the drawing board.
Both attempts at digital board-gaming demonstrate how Scrabulous filled a niche by drawing on Facebook's greatest asset--what Zuckerberg calls "the social graph, " the links between users and their friends.
When real-world observations contradict the hypothesis, you go back to the drawing board.
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, suggested that lawmakers need to go back to the drawing board and enact laws that put tighter controls on the activities of hedge funds.
In April, it walked away from three multi-billion euro missions-in-the-planning, forcing European scientists and engineers to head back to the drawing board after three years of feasibility work.
"I firmly believe that American voters, when faced with his reckless ideas for spending and tax hikes, will never allow those ideas to even make it off the drawing board, " said Rep. Deborah Pryce of Ohio, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House.
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