It is often likened to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid, famously turned into a film by the Walt Disney studio in 1989.

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Too many fail to focus their efforts instead employing the fairy-dust approach, sprinkling a little cash here, a little there.

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It has acidity but also roundness and a little residual sugar that's the magic fairy dust of wine pairing.

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She married a prince in a fairy tale ceremony that was really only missing the chipper cartoon birds and little forest animals.

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Does she know that there is a deeply pained world beyond the Westchester County border just a bit north of New York City that benefited little from some fairy-tale place called Camelot and less from well-orchestrated and timed public relations campaigns afforded only by the rich?

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The goal of more widely applying experiments to policy is not, therefore, some fairy tale of the scientific management of policy, but that we can do a little better on the margin in some cases.

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So the sailors called it the "Little Golden Fish" - or "Zolotaya Rybka" in Russian - after a magical, fairy-tale fish which makes people's wishes come true.

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