But for now, such fraud is easy as pie.
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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.
So while the hackneyed saying goes, As American as apple pie, what we really should be saying is, as American as blueberry cobbler.
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"This is as American as apple pie, " said Sean Tucker, another top aerobatic pilot, from Salinas, Calif.
Judge Sotomayor, as a Puerto Rican, is, well, as American as mango pie.
When that happens, conservation will become an American as apple pie and baseball.
My answer is quite simple: I am about as American as apple pie, but my system is ready for the world.
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"Eating twice as much pie probably good enough for now, " he said.
But some U.S. cities have names as American as apple pie, channeling the 253 year old founding principals of this country into geographic locations.
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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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The production, which starred Michael Ball as the demonic barber and Imelda Staunton as the pie-making Mrs Lovett, recently ended a run in the West End.
Protection of trade secrets is as American as apple pie.
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This is as American as apple pie.
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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.
Readers are introduced to dishes such as A Pie of Carrots and Other Roots, Luxury Bread and Brioche, and Fried Artichokes with Bacon and Cream, as well as pivotal epicurean characters like Taillevent (a 14th-century cook to the court of France), Olivier de La Marche (the Duke of Burgundy's master of ceremonies) and Maestro Martino di Como (cook to the papal court).
Though we chronically fail to claim as big a piece of the economic pie as men do, we continue to look at our larders and find the ingredients to bake ten more pies, often by asking a neighbor if we can borrow a cup of sugar.
Dive into popular dishes such as the seafood pie, a warm puff pastry shell bubbling with clams, lobster and mussels.
Other billionaires including Ron Burkle are said to be keen on getting a slice of the electronic pie as well.
They are coming out with some amazing possibilities there in the lab to continue to grow the pie as a whole.
Jobs do not exist as a fixed pie to be divided up.
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Mr. Hollein's father designed Frankfurt's Museum of Modern Art, which is known to locals as the "pie piece" for its tall, triangular shape.
All of the information is current, some is displayed as maps or pie charts, and one section even allows users to experiment with increasing and decreasing specific funds.
The first featured a pilgrimage to the resting place of Buddy Holly whose untimely death was later declared in American Pie as the day the music died.
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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This sort of politics is only sustainable so long as the economic pie is actually growing: the minute that growth stagnates, much less turns negative, the government finds it impossible to please all of the competing interests at the same time.
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Dhoni handed the ball to Yuvraj Singh - a player described by Pietersen as a "pie-thrower" during England's tour to the sub-continent last winter - but he was carted all over the ground before being pulled out of the attack after just two overs.
Take for example taxes where a 40% rate on a small pie does not generate as much revenue as say a 25% rate on a larger pie.
PIE, as it is known, is run by John Mireles, a 17-year-old from nearby San Jose.
Its owner had a powerful incentive to ensure that each pie was as good as the previous one, because that would persuade people to come back for more.
The jokester had brought three pie boxes as a "present" for Gates, but complained police had prevented him from setting foot outside his car to deliver the parcels, which he insisted were empty.
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