And NPR's very own Robert Smith hit the streets to investigate.
After Robert founded his own winery, his drive, his technological innovations and his proselytizing helped raise the bar for Napa Cabernet and to create the market for premium California wines, his partnership with Baron Phillip de Rothschild in the creation of Opus One being perhaps the ultimate validation of his vision.
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In this quieter part of the Mojave Desert, Robert Bigelow's own fantasy is coming to fruition.
Among the dunes, Robert has built his own small memorial, and segments of the ship's hull still lie partly buried in the sand, like an excavated dinosaur skeleton.
Clearly in his own life, Robert Byrd suffered a lot of hardships.
Perhaps they could suggest that he turn from promoting his own book to studying Robert Caro's recently published "The Passage of Power, " the fourth installment of the biography of Lyndon Johnson.
"Every once in a while there is a person who is really the hero of his own life, " says Robert McKee, a famed lecturer on screenwriting.
While Norman's opinion is shared by many, his own choice of fellow Australian Robert Allenby for this year's competition in Melbourne (which begins Wednesday night, Eastern time) looks even more questionable.
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For partners and spouses, "it is vital that they learn to create a buffer between the person's reaction to stress and their own experience, " says Robert Lawrence Friedman, president of Stress Solutions, a Forest Hills, N.
In our own time, preachers such as Robert Schuller, Joel Osteen and T.
The role will also make Hemsworth an important part of the upcoming Avengers flick, where he'll have to hold his own against Iron Man's Robert Downey Jr.
But the Test team is led by Jersey's 20-something tyro Matt Burrows, croquet's very own James Anderson, and current world champion Robert Fulford is in his 30s.
Cummings told Nasdaq Chief Executive Robert Greifeld that summer that he planned to form his own ECN, and, as Cummings recalls, Greifeld brushed him off by telling him that it would be harder than he thought.
The physicist Robert Millikan (who showed minor confirmation bias in his own work on the charge of the electron by omitting outlying observations that did not fit his hypothesis) devoted more than 10 years to trying to disprove Einstein's theory that light consists of particles (photons).
Joseph and Robert thought it would be a good idea to hire their own lawyer.
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His son Tim, formerly the winemaker at Robert Mondavi Winery, had the curtain crash down on his own first act when the family lost control of the winery after it went public and was purchased by Constellation Brands, the creators of Wild Irish Rose, in 2004.
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This is the part where I am obnoxiously supposed to tell you that if a guy like Tony Parker played in a city like New York, he would be five times as popular and be on the cover of GQ three times a year and own an underwater disco restaurant with Mario Batali and Robert De Niro.
Hardliners in Mr Nkomo's party split off and formed their own party, which was eventually to be led by Robert Mugabe.
The BBC's business editor Robert Peston said Mr Goodwin was in a "class of his own" in terms of the risks that he took at RBS - reflected in the size of the bailout required to rescue the company.
Two lieutenants, Robert Graham and Gary Crum, told him that if he started his own shop, they would go with him.
In Frankenstein, he played alongside Robert De Niro, whose acting techniques were in stark contrast Briers' own, no-nonsense style.
The Potts family intends to file a lawsuit against the parents who own the home where the alcohol was allegedly consumed, attorney Robert Allard said Monday.
Carlos Tevez and David Silva struck in the first half with Vincent Kompany and an own goal by Newcastle defender James Perch completing a resounding victory for Robert Mancini's team.
But the German sides have their own charms: the lightning-fast creativity that Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski and Marco Reus bring to the pitch, for instance, or the steadiness of Bayern Munich's field generals goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger (the owner of the most satisfying-to-pronounce name in sports).
Those among us who already own either Marc Jacobs's "Mouse" shoes in white or Robert Clergerie's white brogues (from the summer season before last), or anything similar, should haul them out of the closet immediately.
Through the years Robert Ciske, 68, was too busy running three Wisconsin car washes to manage his own investments.
"The magic of Glassdoor is that we get to hear stories from employees in their own words, " says Glassdoor's founder and chief executive officer, Robert Hohman.
When in 1676 Robert Cotton, the younger man whom Walton treated as an adopted son, joined his own work to Walton's, creating "Walton and Cotton's Angler, " he brought to the partnership the use of angling with dry flies.
"I defy you to go to Intel's own Web site and find all that information within five minutes, " says Robert Rosenschein , chief executive of GuruNet (amex: GRU - news - people ), the company behind Answers.com.
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