We entered the wind business in the late 1990s, when a wind-turbine company asked us to provide electricity from its site when the wind wasn't blowing.
But that was too late for Vestas, a Denmark-based wind turbine manufacturer that employed 1, 700 people in Colorado at the start of 2012.
As early as the late 1980s Quantum Corp. saw which way the wind was blowing and attempted to reposition itself away from its traditional business of supplying small disk drives to PC manufacturers.
"Inflation has continued to be less of a concern for policy makers than growth or financial stability per se, so we will probably repeat to a lesser degree what we had late in 2010, which was leaning against the wind and intervening, " said Mr. Chow of Barclays Capital.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Indiana through Maryland are still dealing with this heat without the benefits of electricity, due to a derecho -- or massive storm usually with straight-line wind damage -- that barreled eastward late Friday and into Saturday and was fueled, in part, by the extreme heat.
College life is difficult: What with all those classes, work and late-night videogame and movie marathons, many students wind up with raccoon eyes, an empty wallet, pounds of pizza and a serious caffeine addiction.
The teams had to contend with inclement weather conditions at Newlands and replacement full-back Hook said the swirling wind made life difficult as he took two penalties late on.
Launched in late 2009 with backing from Egyptian-based Orascom Telecom, WIND Mobile was the first of several new wireless entrants to attempt to jockey for position in Canada's wireless industry.
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The visitors' cause was not helped by the normally accurate Giteau missing three kickable penalties, in addition to the crucial late conversion, as he struggled to come to terms with the swirling wind in Edinburgh, but he did manage to get the scoreboard ticking over with a fifth-minute effort.
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.
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, the first time since 1990 that a president formally blocked a deal on national security grounds.
When the Palestinian fighters came from Jordan in the late 1960s we had more say here, and they encouraged us to get out of the wind and rain and we made houses out of concrete blocks for the first time.
In another example, in early April, AMSC announced that late in the March quarter, the last quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, Sinovel, its wind turbine partner, refused to open its gates to accept delivery of ordered equipment.
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