There was even talk among judges of a possible Nobel Prize far in the future.
Some day not so far in the future, these views may be mainstream again.
Interim valuations, particularly in start-up companies, whose worth, if any, lies far in the future, are difficult.
"Refrigerator numbers may happen, but it's far in the future, " says Carl Everett, senior vice president at Dell.
His predecessor was sacked after she came up with a plan for minimal emissions cuts far in the future.
"Refrigerator numbers may happen, but it's far in the future, " says Carl Everett, a senior vice president at Dell.
But Mr Iverson has no doubt that, not too far in the future, they will overcome that hurdle too.
Mrs Merkel, caught off guard, agrees in principle but thinks such a referendum still lies far in the future.
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If we wish to avoid some pain today, we create even more pain, and not that far in the future.
But for research, competition is healthy, and far in the future even the United States will have had its day.
It involved pressuring Greece's bondholders to swap their Greek debt for new IOUs that would come due far in the future.
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What I take away from Buxton is that innovative ideas lay the foundation for innovative implementations often far in the future.
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If sometime far in the future, Blizzard shuts down the Diablo III servers how will we play our PC version of the game?
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The message will also be aimed at Balkan countries, such as Albania and Macedonia, that have recently been encouraged to see themselves as candidates far in the future.
Knapp can see a time not so far in the future when even taxi drivers will take plastic, as they do in London, punching them into meters that double as a card-reading machines.
Additionally, in time of conflict, needed advances may be delayed on the grounds that their benefits materialize too far in the future to warrant the use of limited resources in the face of present demands that are perceived as more pressing.
There are eight new chemical entities in various stages of development that have generated four investigational new drug applications with the FDA. Since the payoff from these projects is far in the future, Ranbaxy's labs will continue pumping out generics, which net the company an aftertax margin of 16%.
The gambit has been accepted but the endgame is far off in the future.
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The result will be that not far out in the future, for all practical purposes, standards based apps may match the performance of native apps.
If they persist, then the ability to trigger a nuclear war will be spread far wider in the future than it has been in the past.
Some believe that because a denationalization of money is the ideal state of affairs, a monetary Holy Grail, its achievement must be far off in the future.
Individuals might have a shorter concept of long term, while institutions may perceive long term to mean a time far out in the future.
It must be noted that Steve Jobs truly was a man of incredible insight to be able to look ahead so far in to the future and had the foresight to have started that large stock pile of cash way-back-when.
He also stressed the need for councils to collaborate far more extensively in the future, in order to protect a level of core service delivery.
If Saddam defies the world and we fail to respond, we will face a far greater threat in the future.
It could be the past, it could be in the far future, you could be out in space, it could even be maybe told from the point of view of an alien.
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Hong Kong has taken the possibility of a far-in-the- future Disney theme park and a first-step deal between Microsoft and Hong Kong Telecom as excuses for a mini-rally.
In other words, the dispute over commercial-transport subsidies is just one facet in a far broader debate about the future of the global trading system.
Not just save your estate taxes in the far-off future, mind you, which is what trusts customarily do.
Nonetheless, travellers will encounter far fewer print guidebooks in the future.
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