1. The company cannot afford to do blue-sky research.

2. Some of its work is truly "blue-sky" research.

3. Africa. The markets always have space for some blue-sky optimists -- and 2011 will be the year that venture capitalists fill that slot again.

4. Architect Vincent Callebaut recently unveiled a blue-sky plan for a high-flying fleet of self-sufficientaircraft that are one part zeppelin cities and one part hydrogen-generating floating farms.

5. Blue-sky days and a nice ocean breeze are the norm.

6. Although some proposed features are inspired by blue-sky thinking, most have their roots in concrete use cases.

7. Spend20% of your time on blue-sky ideas without worrying about how they will make a profit.

8. He also shows an improbably large number of pollution readings just inside the threshold for what Beijing calls a "blue-sky day".

9. The government has been doing some blue-sky thinking on how to improve school standards.

10. The result has been more blue-sky days during the Olympics than smoggy ones. Beijing residents have noticed - and they like it.

11. The fig trees sway in the gentle Mediterranean breeze, cotton clouds scattered across the crystal blue-sky cast shadows over the plaza.

12. The thinkers in the nudge unit are wandering around in a trance of long-term blue-sky thinking but no one is managing the hard issues that will surface next week and next month.

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13. In the public sector, the main reason is that funders don't want to be thought to be wasting tax - payers' money on blue-sky work with no chance of success.

14. Mr Sullivan says the only time he gets for blue-sky thinking is when he is in the sky.

15. The word is derived from Turquoise, which is Stewart Brand’s term for a new breed of environmentalist combining traditional green with a shade of blue, as in blue-sky open-minded thinking.

16. DS: This kind of project comes along once in a career, something so blue-sky and white paper.

17. The Humabio project, based in Greece, is involved more in blue-sky scientific thinking than in intelligence work.

18. But two U. S. researchers, a transportation expert and an atmospheric scientist, decided the time had come to apply blue-sky thinking to one of the world's greatest challenges.

19. And we groused about friends who came to visit us in China during the rare blue-sky days.