The company cannot afford to do blue-sky research.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : blue-sky ideas. ,a blue-sky stock.    From Dictionary.com. 

Beijing has a twofold plan for a blue-sky Olympics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who’ll Stop the Rain?] Reference

But the economics of VLJs may be less than blue-sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bytes: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Honda?] Reference

I say that when Soledad is here; it's a blue-sky kind of day.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2004] Reference

What is the blue-sky technology that you are most hopeful about?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Chu: 'Swing For The Fences'] Reference

This is why we fund blue-sky research and foundational research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Robots and DARPA] Reference

Du Pont researchers may pursue their blue-sky ideas one day a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Houses Of Invention] Reference

But their opponents can be just as susceptible to blue-sky thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overheard: A Luddite No More] Reference

It looks like a fantastic 'blue-sky day' and what a beautiful place.    From Wordnik.com.  [grimpette - French Word-A-Day] Reference

It was a beautiful blue-sky day, yet the horizon sang a lonesome melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Travels with My Daughter] Reference

The story is here. 9/11 wasn't quite such a blue-sky operation after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-13] Reference

My recommendation therefore is for companies to adopt a blue-sky strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Just Rush to the Treadmill] Reference

Tea Clipper wasn't a blue-sky project anymore, not after this system test.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]

All kinds of blue-sky tax-reform blueprints are perpetually in circulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Message in the Budget] Reference

I just don't ski with my bunch beyond a couple of runs on blue-sky days anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eileen Ogintz: Making Sure Mom Gets a Break in Snowy Clime] Reference

We don't have this blue-sky Internet notion of somehow, someday, we'll make money.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 20, 2000] Reference

This isn't the first time I've heard such a blue-sky scenario from a working parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would You Quit if You Were Rich?] Reference

And it's a lovely, crisp, blue-sky Autumn day, just right for the first day of October.    From Wordnik.com.  [hours (okay, moments) of amusement] Reference

A blue-sky act to encourage proper investment and protect against fraudulent securities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox] Reference

I've kicked many a straw man into the long grass before doing some blue-sky thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [School's Out !] Reference

It's a beautiful, blue-sky day here with fluffy white clouds and a temperature of 68 degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obamas' Romantic Weekend! First Couple Enjoys BBQ, Hiking, Golf, Dinner In North Carolina (UPDATED PHOTOS)] Reference

Two weeks ago, I stepped outside into the smell of pinôn pines under a bright blue-sky morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig Barnes: A Second American Revolution] Reference

I took this blue-sky photo on 8-18-08 from the apartment where I was staying in central Beijing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Fannin: Olympics Web 2.0? Not So Fast!] Reference

The idea of "ama" - preneurship may sound a bit blue-sky -- especially if you're looking for Work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharon Glassman: What is Work? America Re-Imagined at Pop Tech (Day 1)] Reference

The day nevertheless counts as a "blue-sky" day under China's thresholds for Beijing's air quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Gives Village a 'Green' Medal] Reference

Our glorious window of blue-sky thinking at an end, as the skies return to a more familiar British grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morning After] Reference

Count us among those who are hoping for a blue-sky Olympics that will keep the focus on China's progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olympic Pollution Games] Reference

Different voices are heard than otherwise would be, blue-sky ideas are floated, business models are invented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Literacy 101: The Doritos Challenge] Reference

The deal sealed in public, Loeb hotfooted it out of there, leaving us wondering: PR stunt or blue-sky thinking?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real-life violence rocks the Comic-Con nerds in San Diego] Reference

"This was stage one of a two-stage move to our 'blue-sky' scenario," Mr. Pierce said in a research note Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barclays Succeeds in Deal to Sell iShares Unit to CVC] Reference

You could be experiencing a beautiful blue-sky day one moment and be mired in gray the next, or just the opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [While Other People Sleep]

There is no future material on the horizon, save for maybe some mysterious super capacitor or blue-sky nanotech pathway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patrick Takahashi: A Solution for the American Auto Industry] Reference

We saw glimpses of a conflicted host country with few blue-sky days offering us its greatest talents and finest abilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lea Lane: Olympic Withdrawal] Reference

Ever since Beijing was named in 2001 to host the 2008 Summer Games, Chinese officials have been promising a "blue-sky" Olympics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olympic Pollution Games] Reference

China's Shanghai Stock Exchange got a few blue-sky days late last month, but whether the financial smog will lift is anybody's guess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerging Markets Are a Must] Reference

A willfully blue-sky president already disinclined to think about the downside, jacked up on antidepressants that banish the downside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny Ausubel: This Is Your President on Drugs] Reference

"Healing journeys aren't about feeling good all the time," Lisa says, as we chat and chew, two kinda redheads on a Colorado blue-sky day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharon Glassman: Interview with the Author: "Broken" by Lisa Jones] Reference

The result is that some concepts that were once merely show-off features in blue-sky idea homes start to show up in real-world tract homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good-Bye Granite Countertops, Hello Wheelchair Accessibility] Reference