The pipe may no longer be fashionable, but the pipedream cannot be exiled with it.

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Maybe you think space travel is just a pipedream so you settle for something else.

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That proved to be a pipedream, and the 2020 goal will prove equally unattainable.

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Beckenham MP Bob Stewart described the plan to boost the reserves by 30, 000 as "something of a pipedream".

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Ford won plaudits for trying, but his peace ship was ridiculed by the smart set as the pipedream it was.

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But there are other reasons why for the vast majority of people in the country, high-speed broadband is still a pipedream.

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And that would not be just a pipedream, says Tony Hannah of the International Sugar Organisation, if Cuba were to bring in foreign capital.

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The technical term for this is, I believe, a "pipedream".

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In many parts of the world, this is a pipedream.

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His is a no-holds barred attack on what he believes is not just the sale of a pipedream in a global economy but one whose pursuit has become the basis for massive worldwide scams.

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That may still be a pipedream.

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