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without immediate commercial value
the company cannot afford to do blue-sky research
How To Use blue-sky In A Sentence
- NASA should be turned back into a pure R&D organisation, purely for developing blue-sky innovations in aeronautics and astronautics. Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
- At this particular time, companies are showing only a slow return to any enthusiasm for investment of any kind, let alone blue-sky developments.
- We've seen through their blue-sky jargon, bullet-point presentations and efforts to squander public money on flights of fancy.
- Once considered blue-sky research, the field has produced such milestones as carbon nanotubes a few hundred millionths of an inch thick that function as the world's tiniest transistors.
- I just don't ski with my bunch beyond a couple of runs on blue-sky days anymore. Eileen Ogintz: Making Sure Mom Gets a Break in Snowy Clime
- Obviously that's just blue-sky stuff -- sidewalks are hard enough, much less new paths, parks, and the removal of private residences. Why We Elected Mike O’Brien « PubliCola
- We had perfect blue-sky weather all weekend, so with the windows rolled down and old Nirvana tunes blaring from the radio, we meandered along the lake and through the tree-shaded back roads. Anna Watson Carl: Eating Traverse City: Part I
- Are we living in a blue-sky dream, where the terrifying reality - the horror of the choice before us, and the responsibility either way - is pushed out of our consciousness?
- the company cannot afford to do blue-sky research
- Surely here is an idea for any political party desperate for a bit of blue-sky thinking.