What was once a pipe dream for Spinner and his team has become reality.
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Is the "Earthscraper" a genuinely feasible innovation or a pretty but impractical pipe dream?
"It's a pipe dream to think that a country can secure its cyber-borders, " says Schneier.
Right now, the goal of limiting warming to 2 degrees by 2100 seems like a pipe dream.
What has for years been a pipe dream is quickly becoming a reality.
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The notion that entire communities and countries could be completely powered by renewable energy still seems like a pipe dream to many.
An award-winning creative director sometimes holds the promise of a quick fix, but this can turn out to be a pipe dream.
Without this kind of two-way communication, engagement is just a pipe dream.
"Multiple pipes is no pipe dream, " swooned former FCC chairman William Kennard.
The simple arithmetic calculation does not have to be a pipe dream.
And this is no pipe dream: technical support, administrative tasks, research, programming and many other skills can all be adapted to online employment.
And with median family incomes still down from a few years ago, high markups on items are still a pipe dream in many cases.
The combination of smartphones and home Wi-Fi networks has taken the concept of a truly wireless connected home from a pipe dream to a reality.
Search analytics like the type described above are no pipe dream.
Though Fu was eager to host the festival, it was a pipe dream for five years because the cost of renting out a venue was just too high.
The result is that for the affluent and spa-addicted, the idea of a home spa is becoming less a pipe dream and more an indulgent reality.
The idea of making a promotional video that goes viral is the pipe dream of many small business owners who want to share their message with the masses.
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Yet this situation seemed a pipe dream not so long ago: Iraq's security forces, serving an elected government, assume primary responsibility for the good order of their own country.
And although such a phone is at least a decade away from actually becoming reality, those working on the project believe it is far more than just a pipe dream.
To be sure, with intermediate-term munis earning 4% and Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) not doing so well, the 7% return may be a pipe dream.
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It is a pipe dream to think that manufacturing jobs will come back to the USA. Our labor force is simply too expensive (and really too skilled) to produce high-volume, low-end (genericized) items.
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Perhaps my idea is just a pipe dream.
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Think it sounds like a pipe dream?
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Over the last two decades an incredible two billion people have gained access to clean drinking water for the first time, so it's not such a pipe dream to argue that we should reach the remaining 783 million by this date.
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