Not some pie in the sky proposal that may pay dividends years down the road.
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Until then, all the great science in the world may be just pie in the sky.
"All this talk of a town center is pie in the sky, " he says.
When all was said and done, the food delivery concept proved to be pie in the sky.
This rationalized the market at 1350, an elusive number today, but historically consistent rather than pie in the sky.
The consensus on gross margins, over 40 percent, is pie in the sky.
At the moment, these plans are little more than pie in the sky.
The Mayor of London's plans to build an airport in the Thames Estuary, dubbed 'Boris Island', have often been described as 'pie in the sky'.
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In the 1990s drama Pie In The Sky, he played Henry Crabbe, a retired detective running his own restaurant, who was continually called upon to solve more crimes.
We need to allow docs to state the truth and advise those patients the real options, not the pie in the sky costly hope they know will have no affect.
We were certain that this was just a "pie in the sky" concept, but apparently engineers are hard at work designing those futuristic space elevators that promise to eventually whisk cargo and humans to the final frontier at a fraction of the cost of rocket-based delivery systems.
We are making this America's national mission: improving our schools not in unrealistic ways, not in abstract ways, not in pie-in-the-sky ways -- in concrete ways we are putting our resources behind the kinds of reforms that are going to make a difference.
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Later employment minister Tony McNulty told BBC 2's Daily Politics that any "tax cuts or adjustments there may be" would be "funded in a transparent fashion, albeit from borrowing" while the Conservatives' plans were "pie-in-the-sky on a hope and a prayer".
Speaking on the Sunday Politics show in the West Midlands, Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East Emma Reynolds described the plan as a "pie-in-the-sky scheme that doesn't really seem viable".
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But it is not only the pessimists who think this is pie-in-the-sky.
Get Creative, but Keep Your Stress Level In-Check: The holidays are demanding enough as it is, and coming up with a new pie-in-the-sky mobile app or daily-deal promotion at the last minute might suck up hours of your time that could be better spent with your customers.
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"You know, there were so many pie-in-the-sky dreams back then, " he says ruefully.
"Before we started launching people into space as private citizens, people thought that was a pie-in-the-sky idea, " He said.
It's time for them and their allies to stop focusing on their pie-in-the-sky expectations and embrace what can be achieved.
But when Romney feared that Rick Santorum might defeat him in Michigan's crucial Republican primary, he released a far more ambitious, and far more expensive, tax cut proposal that is being criticized as pie-in-the-sky.
Unless the SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority craft strong rules, Mr. Abshure said, a combination of fraud, high failure rates for startups and an "inevitable advertising onslaught of pie-in-the-sky offers" will kill investor confidence in buying shares online.
Most workplace problems, believers explain, stem from a clash of cognitive styles: when a visual manager sends a written memo to an "auditory" employee, for example, or when a pragmatic manager rejects as too pie-in-the-sky the contributions of a theoretical subordinate.
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