This time, down through Normal, Illinois, from high up in white Minnesota, dead of winter, icy roads, wind blowing sideways across the empty cornfields.

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On Wednesday, GM announced that its year-long effort to close a deal with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. was dead, and it would begin to wind down Hummer operations.

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They backed a yachting syndicate that competed in the America's Cup. (Their vessel, equipped with such Loomis-inspired gadgets as a custom-designed wind tracker, came in dead last.) They acquired most of Hilton Head Island, S.C. for use as their private playground.

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The wind sweeps a chattering funnel of dead leaves between his knees and teases the brim of his straw hat and Henry tries to concentrate on what he is doing.

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Jones later sent a clearance over the dead-ball line as he sought to take advantage of the wind at his back.

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The wind flattened the tall dry grass next to the pillars in a dead shout that told him not a thing that would help.

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Even as the sun came out Friday afternoon, the wind continued and was especially a factor on the 18th, playing dead into the breeze.

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Friends of the Earth Cymru says the falling cost of wind and solar energy will soon leave the business case for the barrage "dead in the water".

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