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Less fanciful but no less important is the continued expansion in use of microwave landing systems (MLS), which are replacing aging instrument landing system (ILS) equipment.

Christie was less fanciful.

It looks less fanciful today.

More tightly dramatised, less fanciful," he said.

Talk from politicians of a potential "civil war" has started to look less fanciful.

In this country, we are less fanciful with our heating apparatuses.

On the atomic scale, however, teleportation of a sort has already been achieved that could lead to less-fanciful, though still impressive, technologies, such as quantum computers.

But even if North Korea was, as the Americans insist, the source of the cyber-attacks, it would have felt it was acting in self-defence.In this section Drama queens Ordinance survey Knife-edge A-bian back home Full to bursting A good scrap Birthday blues ReprintsThe plot of "The Interview", involving an attempt to assassinate Mr Kim, must seem less than fanciful to his advisers.

If those ambitions, now a game away from being realised, would have been dismissed as a fantasy pre-tournament, the idea of Nani being a prominent figure in any success seemed equally fanciful less than two years ago.

She debunks such wishful news media thinking as the post-9/11 rush to matrimony, "patriotic pregnancy" and a baby boomlet that never happened (not to mention articles in this newspaper, less factual than fanciful, about well-educated women opting out of high-powered careers and deciding to be moms instead).

The revival of "Faust," thoughtfully and energetically staged by Vilppu Kiljunen on the sort of fanciful less-is-more set that works best against the castle's meddlesome stones, was conducted with sweep and nuance by Markus Lehtinen.