"Another four years would have been frosting on the cake, but we have a nice cake now, " said William Borucki, the project's principal scientist.
Military caterers have baked a cake for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee parade and muster at Windsor Castle.
If I had known, we would have maybe rolled out a cake or something. (Laughter.) But have fun.
You can (a) have your cake, (b) eat it, too, and (c) not pay taxes until later.
For children in the nineteen-seventies, it would have been a piece of cake.
To its detractors, their very multiplicity shows the Third Way's fundamental hollowness: a doctrine that says you can have your cake and eat it too is a recipe for ducking every hard decision.
Have a ceremony, exchange rings, buy a cake.
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So people, a lot of times, if they want to eat chocolate-chip cookies or birthday cake, they have a recipe book that tells them how to do that, where they might not have a recipe book for the master cleanse diet, or for Ratatouille, for that matter.
We have to get rid of districts that look like snakes and spiders and have them look more like a layer cake.
By comparison, working out the likelihood that a 45-year-old smoker will have a heart attack in the next 12 months is a piece of cake.
Icing on the cake: You have a 3% dividend yield.
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"You have to think of a large stone birthday cake, " Haas says with an almost fatherly pride.
With a forkful of the apple cake or apfelkuchen, as Berliners would have it, one is a time traveller back in the city's heady days of the late 1920s.
But, one modest book stands alone, honoring the cake busy cooks have revered for decades -- the cake that comes powdered in a box.
Dr Carter and his graduate students have been experimenting with a dummy mine in a cake tin full of sand.
If you overmix you have two choices: start over for a fluffy cake or accept that the cake will be denser but still tasty.
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The firm is a master of the "have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too" brand of politics and public relations.
"The crossover market is a great example of how consumers can have their cake and eat it too, " he says.
The moral case, although easy to sympathise with, is a way of trying to have one's cake and eat it.
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Using the new method you could have your cake and eat it, by designing a strong core to a structure that has a weaker, temperature-resistant surface, he says.
Instead of a container of gelatin or a glop of cake -- which have inspired photo blogs dedicated to the wonders of hospital food -- patients get an in-season peach or bowl of strawberries plucked from a nearby farm.
Hence the search for a creative formula to allow the Senate to have its cake and eat it.
Conservation easements offer a neat way for wealthy environmentalists like Bacon to have their cake and eat it, too.
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Actually, they simply want to have their cake and eat it too: they dream of a way out of a crisis generated by an excess of public debt that does not entail a retrenchment of government activities.
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For the reserves are the ores that we have drilled, tested, measured, weighed, baked a fluffy cake out of and know that we can mine with current technologies, at current prices, and still make a profit doing so.
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There is room for a billion-dollar wedding industry serving a generation of young people who, though marrying later than my generation did, have embraced the white wedding gown, a dozen attendants, the cake, the song, the speech and the party after.
As icing on the cake, hardware companies don't have to pay a third party for each Linux-based machine they sell.
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