• Unfortunately, Bernanke is out of wind-up toys that can stem our deflationary spiral.

    FORBES: The Sputtering Gold Comet

  • Penk, who carried out hundreds of "wind-up" calls at Capital FM, says the recent tragedy will make it almost impossible for these pranks to continue.

    BBC: The end of prank calls?

  • But Wimbledon's recent goalless run came to an end after 14 minutes when Watson misjudged Robbie Earle's 50-yard ball out of defence in a swirling wind and Ekoku drilled it home via Thomas Myhre's left-hand post.

    BBC: Growing up in public

  • "It was tough out there because of the wind - everybody wanted to run behind me, " said the 34-year-old after her latest triumph.

    BBC: Radcliffe romps to New York win

  • Earlier optimism was in line with a brief rally in GPS shares until news of another 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Japan knocked the wind out of a U.S. stock market rally.

    FORBES: Contrarians See United Continental Flying Above $19, Gap Getting A Bounce

  • Like something out of a sci-fi film, it is peppered with the remnants of a wind-seared forest.

    BBC: The ghostly shore of Namibia��s Skeleton Coast

  • But he insisted the UK was on target to meet the expectation - set out in its renewable "roadmap" - of the scale of on-shore wind's contribution to UK energy by 2020.

    BBC: Ed Davey

  • Today, there are thousands of workers building long-lasting batteries and wind turbines, and working to figure out new sources of fuel all across the country.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President in Milwaukee, WI

  • Unfortunately, you know, the wind behind that - the wind that was taken out of that sale a little bit yesterday by the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments, saying that basically, you know, what we need to do is help the economy now in the short-term.

    NPR: Bush Offers Plan to Kick-Start the Economy

  • Under the new system, people who binge drink during adolescence and early adulthood will be seen, essentially, as "mild" alcoholics -- even though studies show that they are much more likely to grow out of the problem than they are to wind up with longer term alcohol-related problems.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • They are making broadcasts of local interest and handing out wind-up radios.

    ECONOMIST: Silencing murderous messages is not as easy as it sounds

  • But if a big gust of wind pushes the ship too far to the left, the solution is not to figure out a way to generate an equally-sized gust of wind to push the ship back in the other direction.

    FORBES: Ben Bernanke Is Steering Us Off Course

  • In November, WinFlex, a wind-power company based in Kiryat Yam, Israel, received one of the most coveted prizes in the GE Ecomagination Challenge for developing a wind-turbine system that uses a light, flexible cloth sheets made out of composite materials as the rotor system for a wind turbine.

    FORBES: Inflatable Wind Turbines Pass Laugh Test

  • The Swedish government is funding research into the feasibility of using a wind-turbine driven oxygen pump in the Baltic, following studies carried out last year by the University of Gothenburg, which looked at the effect of pumping oxygen-rich surface water to the bottom of two Swedish fjords.

    CNN: Can oxygen pump breathe life into ocean 'dead zone?'

  • It would seem to me that most of those who energetically campaign against the planting of wind farms in their bosky vales do so not out of a profound appreciation of the dew-jewelled web of life, but merely as spectators who wish the show that they've paid admission for to go as advertised.

    BBC: A Point of View: In praise of wind turbines

  • Statoil's Alexandra Beck Gjorv told the BBC the technology, the Hywind, to be put off Norway's coast - "should help move offshore wind farms out of sight".

    BBC: Floating wind turbine launched

  • The scheme went into wind-up, the employer went out of business and because there were a lot of pensioners, they got their full pensions and he got nothing at all.

    BBC

  • Yet, bending to the chill American wind blowing out of Iraq and through its now-closed offices in Damascus, Hamas has been making conciliatory noises and intends to continue talks with Mr Abbas's government.

    ECONOMIST: First steps on the road to peace

  • The Santa Clara-based champion of x86 architecture has seen the wind drop out of its sails (and sales).

    FORBES: The Collapse Of Steve Jobs' Empire And Other Quaint Tales

  • "Clearly some supporters feel aggrieved that a song they believe to be no more than a tit-for-tat 'wind up' of Celtic supporters should be singled out in this way and merit the attention of police, governments and anti-racism organisations, " said Bain.

    BBC: Bain responds to 'Famine song'

  • Those teams will also be allowed unlimited out-of-season track testing, with no restrictions on the scale and speed of wind-tunnel testing.

    BBC: F1 teams handed ?40m budget cap

  • The latest twist is a highly ambitious LTE roll-out plan combined with the intention to wind down WiMAX support by the end of 2012.

    FORBES: Sprint Brings More Drama - Verizon Giggles

  • "When they come close to the Sun, this ice melts - solar wind blows this material out into space, so you get a tail of matter coming off the comet, " explains O'Brien.

    BBC: Star of Bethlehem: The astronomical explanations

  • The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).

    BBC: Viewpoint: The Sun and climate change

  • Pier-decks are largely the resort of the old, who sit in cardigans out of the wind and watch the young passing.

    ECONOMIST: Musings on a favourite memento mori

  • Adding to the hawkish sentiment, an article by Fed mouthpiece Jon Hilsenrath in the Wall Street Journal indicated Fed officials have already mapped out a strategy to wind-down QE, and that only timing is left as a point of contention.

    FORBES: After Bernanke's QE Sent Stocks To Record Highs, Will Fed Tapering Collapse The Market?

  • Dustin Johnson, who won the wind-hit season-opening Tournament of Champions at Kapalua on Tuesday, pulled out after nine holes of his second round due to illness.

    CNN: Golfer climbs out of 'abyss' to live dream

  • NRG, meanwhile, has been ramping up its investments in solar and wind power as well as rolling out an electric car-charging network in the petro capital of Houston, of all places.

    FORBES: NRG's David Crane: No new nukes but the solar business looks hot

  • One of its two wind probes was knocked out, most probably by a piece of grit kicked up by the rocket-powered descent stage that placed Curiosity on the surface.

    BBC: Dust-devils flirt with Curiosity Mars rover

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