Though seemingly a quixotic holding for a mining giant, the legendary winery is used by Anglo American as a showcase and a way to impress the South African elite.
And maybe in this viral age of communication and red-hot activism, someone who has never held political office can turn out primary voters with a quixotic message and a real grassroots ground operation.
It might be a bit quixotic hoping for a national backbone of mobile coverage, but it would have opened up the UK and the resulting burst of innovation would have been fascinating to watch.
He also argues that Mr Syaukani is pursuing misguided development schemes, including a quixotic plan to turn Tenggarong into a popular tourist destination.
The Aswan high dam, for example, is often cited as a cautionary example, a quixotic construction that now reduces the mighty Nile to a dribble before it trickles to the sea, leaving behind an explosion of water hyacinth, outbreaks of bilharzia, polluted irrigation channels and a build-up of sediment inland that would otherwise compensate for coastal erosion from Egypt to Lebanon.
The push by Owens-Illinois is a perhaps quixotic attempt to bring transparency to a system that some critics say has allowed billions of dollars to be squandered on dubious claims and legal fees.
Despite his Herculean efforts to effectuate change, even Bogle admits there's a quixotic element to his pursuits.
OK, something of a quixotic task but we must leave him to do as he thinks best of course.
Some of these legislative campaigns have a quixotic, tilting-at-windmills quality about them.
Walker, who as U.S. Comptroller General launched a quixotic antideficit crusade and now heads the antideficit foundation funded by Blackstone Group billionaire Peter G.
Yet the man who has made a name for himself as a ruthless cost-cutter and daring deal maker now seems to be behaving like a quixotic dreamer.
Announcements like this one today are likely designed to ameliorate concerns by Freeport shareholders that Moffett is taking them on a quixotic and expensive journey of no return.
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Ron Paul has run what is widely seen as a Quixotic campaign that is getting 10% or so of the primary tally but has attracted larger shares of young voters.
In a quixotic holdover from Prohibition, when alcohol was banned in the U.S., American consumers have been largely forbidden from buying wine directly from a winery not located in their state.
After the elder Bhutto was executed in 1979, Anwar, like scores of other idealistic Pakistanis, followed Murtaza to exile in Afghanistan and took up a quixotic struggle against the Zia regime.
American Express may be launching a quixotic charge at the Justice Department by fighting this case, but clearly it thinks competition means bribing consumers with goodies, not trying to make peace with merchants by reducing the discounts it demands from them.
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Klinenberg offers many proposals for dealing with such eventualities, some reasonable (he suggests better funding programs to provide the elderly with caretakers), a few quixotic (he has real hopes for social robots).
But the press conferences will also enable Mr Bernanke to control the Fed's message before a colleague with more quixotic views excites the markets.
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Their opposition to a debt-financed fiscal stimulus, and particularly to a temporary cut in VAT (a sales tax), seemed quixotic last autumn.
Enforcing a single-platform mobile strategy is both quixotic and wrong.
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He has devoted his entire 30-year career to solar thermal energy, a century-old idea that was dismissed as quixotic in the early 1990s, after oil and gas prices collapsed.
Mathias Svalina dives into the quixotic entrepreneurial spirit of American capitalism for his new book I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur.
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Beyond the always quixotic Nintendo, both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 launched to a suite of hardware and software problems.
Hugging remains a constant danger in the romantic park, from sunset views near quixotic oceanside windmills to Hippie Hill, where drum circles do their rhythmically challenged best to restart the Summer of Love.
Walter Mondale's picking Geraldine Ferraro took a hammer to America's glass ceiling, but helped little in his quixotic 1984 effort to topple Ronald Reagan.
The setting itself seemed to capture the quixotic nature of the enterprise, since the historic mansion, once in the heart of a hutong, is now the lone survivor, overshadowed on all sides by skyscrapers.
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