Today it has several hundred, with scores of new ones on the drawing boards.
Worse yet, systems capable of protecting us here at home as well may never get off the drawing boards.
And a succession of needed replacements for obsolescing weapon systems will remain right where they are: on the drawing boards.
There does not appear to be any easy breakthroughs on the horizon, and Greece could send EU leaders back to the drawing boards.
But few of today's imaginative ideas would have made it onto drawing boards without cork's competition from screw-top bottle caps, plastic stoppers and aluminum Tetra Paks.
There are numerous types of spacecraft and missions that can be configured in various mix-and-match combinations, and many of which never launched off the drawing boards.
The Jetlev design is still in its early days, says Mr. Katz, and a friendlier, more forgiving control mechanism is certainly on the drawing boards for Jetlev 2.0.
About 500 megawatts of wind power are on the drawing boards, with the Victorian government aiming to have 10 per cent of the state's electricity, or 1000 megawatts, generated by renewable energy sources such as wind farms by 2006.
However, when the bottom fell out of tax equity markets amidst the financial crisis of 2008 and the resulting recession, many tax equity investors withdrew from projects on the drawing boards and walked away from some projects already underway.
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This will continue in all our current reactors, but in addition to that, the newer reactors that are now on the drawing boards and are being built are going to be far safer than the ones built 40 years ago.
Local health boards have been drawing up plans to change the way services are delivered.
Carter and Jay W. Lorsch: " Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World", Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
Both list millions of jobs, drawing on company websites, job boards and newspapers.
Mr Neil said he wanted to see what Scotland's 14 health boards had to say before drawing his own conclusions.
As Congress grapples with the production tax credit issue, AWEA is drawing on its every advantage, hitting up editorial boards and reporters, advertising in Washington publications, and orchestrating thousands of emails from member companies to congressional offices.
Plaid Cymru AM Helen Mary Jones said the review board's recommendations showed that local health boards needed to go "back to the drawing board".
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Local health boards (LHBs) around Wales have been drawing up proposals that the Welsh government says are necessary to put the NHS on a safe and sustainable footing.
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