But now he himself, to put the wind up his top managers, has raised the spectre of a takeover.
The wind up here was strong, and she had a sudden fear of falling through the spaces between the tracks after all.
"They put the wind up us a bit yesterday by knocking us over so quickly but I was really pleased with the way the boys fought today in pretty hot conditions, " said Australia coach Tim Nielsen.
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Leading the wind up speeches, Labour justice spokesman Lord Bach referred to the many peers who had raised concerns about changes to legal aid, praising the level of legal expertise that had been on display in the House.
There was a brief delay when Minor batted in the seventh because the wind whipped up the dirt and blew more than 150 hot dog wrappers and other pieces of debris all over the field.
Settling into my four-poster bed, I'm lulled by the sound of the wind spiralling up off the sea, joined by the faint creak of a rocking chair and, just perhaps, the slightest click of a key turning in a lock.
The rain abated for the second-half but the wind picked up, giving the Blues a distinct advantage.
And here is the opening for the next profit niche with a social purpose, says Rory Stear of Freeplay Energy, the company that develops and sells 'wind-up' energy generators best known in the 'wind-up radio'.
The bunkers are deep and if the wind gets up, Probyn predicts that the cut will not be far off level par for 36 holes.
It gives us the illusion of security, although sometimes still when the wind picks up, I get a feeling I never had before the tornado.
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Lastly, if you and the buyers wind up with a small gap in your final negotiations over price, ask the brokers if they'd bridge it by accepting a lower commission.
But, in doing so, they walk away from the table and wind up defending the current immigration system.
The two cases are intertwined because some of the traders in the second case wind up tipping the traders in the first case.
They never want to accept responsibility for kids who drop out of school but they're the first in line to claim credit for the kids who wind up in the Ivy League.
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An hour after landing Bozeman, the clouds turned gray-blue and the wind kicked up to 30 mph.
Suppose half the customers wind up with Dow in their 150-stock subsets and half with Du Pont.
That night, the wind was up, and the bough of an ash thumped and scraped across the thatched roof.
The wind picked up Saturday evening, and Outrageous skimmed along at 7.5 knots.
So those three phases of the flight wind up in one big number.
About half the participants wind up with permanent consulting jobs, according to Margaret Ashida, director of IBM's University Talent Programs.
"So many sick things have happened, " says Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's leading novelists (A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle).
And all of a sudden, you heard the wind pick up, and slowly it got much louder than anything I've ever heard.
"The wind kicked up a little bit and it changed things quite a bit and it's actually changed direction too, " he added.
The wind picked up, and before long we'd migrated back inside.
"Given the subtle slopes of the greens, don't be surprised if you see putts rolling off the putting surface should the wind get up, " he said.
Woods told reporters he found Friday's round much more difficult than Thursday with the wind picking up in the afternoon and causing him a few troubles.
"I played nice and steady and took a few chances on the front nine and then the wind got up, " he said, before giving credit to his temporary local caddie.
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