In late September, President Barack Obama blocked a privately owned Chinese company from building wind turbines close to a Navy military site in Oregon due to national security concerns.

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Although Ms Secrest believes Duveen never went quite so far as knowingly to sell a rich client a fake, he sailed close to the wind.

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Simpson used his long putter for his third and it looked set to finish close to the cup until a massive gust of wind saw it roll over six-feet past.

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So of course, when wars begin to wind down, the system manages the way in which funding is reallocated with a close eye to how power relationships might be impacted.

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AOL. It has a history of sailing close to the wind.

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Although sometimes populism sails close to the wind of dumbing down (a comic book showing a futuristic Artemisia, for example), the results can be imaginative.

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China and the United States are in a close race for the most gold medals as the 2012 London Olympics begin to wind down, but the real story is the nation in third place: Great Britain.

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Even coming close to the European targets, say government advisers, would mean a sevenfold rise in onshore wind capacity and a 46-fold rise in offshore.

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