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The fundamental point is that, in the presence of inelastic supply curves, demand-side subsidies face a headwind of adverse price effects, while direct public provision gets a tail wind of favorable price effects.
FORBES: Mike Konczal on Public Education and Public Options
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The white "sail" at the top of each chimney, called a cowl, turned to face away from the wind to allow the smoke to be sucked out of the top of the building.
WSJ: The Oast: A Quirky English Outpost��WSJ Mansion
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The young man, who was tall and thin, with sun-streaked fair hair, and a wind- and sun-burned face, who wore the sun-faded flannel shirt, a pair of peasant's trousers and rope-soled shoes, leaned over, put his arm through one of the leather pack straps and swung the heavy pack up onto his shoulders.
NPR: Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero
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Her face was red from the wind, and she was panting a little, having hurried through the long ascent.
NEWYORKER: The Stolen Pigeons
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The eastern mountains don't face the entire expanse of dunes, so the wind cuts the Sossusvlei valley into a "U" shape.
CNN: Romancing the dune in Namibia
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Wind energy developers can follow a different path to protect eagles or they can ignore the Guidance and face the consequences.
FORBES: 5 Steps To Keep Your Wind Farm From Killing Eagles
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The pickup rocked a little with the wind, but it might have been Otto's weight as he shifted to face her.
NPR: Excerpt: 'The Assassins Gallery'
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Another priority is the construction of a mechanism to wind down any failed financial giant, not just banks, so that officials no longer face an unenviable choice between bail-outs (AIG) and system-shaking collapse (Lehman Brothers).
ECONOMIST: Financial reform in America