This business is finally looking more businesslike -- and less quixotic -- every day.
Optimism at this point may seem quixotic, but there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful.
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His idea carries the quixotic whiff of Esperanto, the international language that failed to become mainstream.
It would be too much to say that Mr Wellstone's quixotic liberalism was unique.
Despite his Herculean efforts to effectuate change, even Bogle admits there's a quixotic element to his pursuits.
Billions of dollars have been squandered globally in the quixotic pursuit of maximising accounting earnings per share.
Mann, who made a fortune with various medical devices, remains confident--some say stubborn--about his latest and most quixotic venture.
OK, something of a quixotic task but we must leave him to do as he thinks best of course.
The notion that drug production can be eliminated in ten years seems quixotic.
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The hamburger has become the latest oddity to surface from Myhrvold's quixotic venture.
The steel raja's scruples are rather more quixotic: the coalescence of the industry.
This journey has been fraught with similarly quixotic dead ends, fairy tales and blunders ignoring economic (and thermodynamic) realities.
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So can the goal of ending postcode poverty ever be realistic, let alone on this extraordinary and perhaps Quixotic timescale?
What follows is a quixotic quest for the recipes that give good countryfolk and doubtless Mr Barlow ample waistlines and cheerful characters.
Iran's censors are more flexible than is often supposed, but they can be imperious, quixotic and, on occasion, pointlessly vindictive.
Their opposition to a debt-financed fiscal stimulus, and particularly to a temporary cut in VAT (a sales tax), seemed quixotic last autumn.
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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Some of these legislative campaigns have a quixotic, tilting-at-windmills quality about them.
Beyond the always quixotic Nintendo, both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 launched to a suite of hardware and software problems.
He also argues that Mr Syaukani is pursuing misguided development schemes, including a quixotic plan to turn Tenggarong into a popular tourist destination.
The Liberal Democrats' confidence that public support can be gained for environmental taxes, if properly explained, may not be as quixotic as it sounds.
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.
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.
His quixotic determination to enact illiberal anti-terror laws reflects a deep New Labour conviction that it must never be out-toughed on crime and security.
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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Chimera rush you without feeling threatening, bosses lumber across the screen without feeling massive, and the plot plays out in quixotic scenes without feeling important.
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It's one of these quixotic things that the Ulster Unionist Party do in terms of this administration, it makes no sense, there's no end product.
At the start, he was a classic insurgent a quixotic candidate from a tiny state, with no money, no name recognition and an intriguing health-care plan.
So why did the company bother with the quixotic effort to get its Vioxx sequel, Arcoxia, approved, especially at the risk of further tarnishing its image?
Still, investors want answers from the SEC, and though their mission may be quixotic, the agency is trying to give people hard reasons for the crash.
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