• One problem with test-driving prototypes and mule cars is that rival manufacturers, and the motoring press, can more easily get wind of new models.

    ECONOMIST: Car design

  • This is a big coup for the rebels, and a huge embarrassment for the security forces, which failed to get wind of, let alone prevent, the attack.

    ECONOMIST: The separatists strike close to home

  • Once businesses get wind of how easy this is, I imagine some will be racing to install a blue-tuned Hue in order to keep workers awake particularly night-shift workers.

    FORBES: The Best Product of 2012: The Philips Hue LED Lighting System

  • You get wind of a rumor that the third fellow thinks stocks will run higher and higher, despite putting on a double-digit gain in the past eight to 10 months.

    FORBES: Sorry, Mila Kunis Is No Stock Market Indicator

  • Usually the process involves using both a GPS and digital camera and linking the data later, but there are actually a couple of cameras on the market with built-in GPS. In any case, once your in-laws get wind of this be prepared for a new era of vacation-picture slideshows, with a step-by-step (literally) recounting of the trip.

    ENGADGET: GPS photo linking

  • 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.

    BBC: Shatila stories: Muhammad Diab

  • We can reverse this progress, like the other side has talked about, or we can build on it. (Applause.) Now, unlike my opponent, I'm not going to let the oil companies write our energy plan. (Applause.) I'm not going to get rid of the wind energy tax credit that is helping to spur this incredibly dynamic sector of our economy.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President in Golden, CO

  • They may get a second wind because of tactical mistakes the current regime has made in its tax reforms: It raised excise taxes and various VAT levies because it felt obliged to match the revenues that would allegedly be lost by moving to a flat tax.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • As soon as you get a get a bit of strong wind, trees start going over.

    BBC: Australia hit by Tropical Cyclone Rusty

  • America has doubled the amount of electricity we get from wind over the last four years, enough power for nearly 13 million homes -- clean, renewable energy.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Earlier this year, more than 100 Conservative MPs wrote to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to get rid of the subsidies paid to wind farm operators funded from household energy bills.

    BBC: Wind farms: 'No change' on policy, says David Cameron

  • He was able to get out of this, but people wind up having to go to criminal courts and fight these charges, hire a lawyer and then have to try to find out if their civil rights have been violated.

    NPR: Black And Blue: Police And Minorities

  • Businesses that buy wind turbogenerators get a tax break by way of accelerated depreciation.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Investigation work is due to get under way at the site of the planned wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen which is opposed by Donald Trump.

    BBC: Photomontage of planned turbines

  • Some clunkers from well-connected families wind up with Ivy League credentials and get to be president of something.

    FORBES: Harvard Grad Seeks Babysitting Jobs

  • There's currently only a single wind turbine on a small outer island providing energy to Hong Kong, the rest of the city just doesn't get enough wind for traditional turbines to do any good.

    ENGADGET: Micro-turbines output micro-electricity for Hong Kong's micro-apartments

  • Stores wind up heavily discounting the used goods to get them back out of the store.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Should the manager feel the need to get out of Altria, he could simultaneously sell the Amazon and wind up with no net capital gain.

    FORBES: Playing the Rebound

  • But with writing, finding someone who has that level of expertise to work with - unless I'm, you know, able to pay thousands of dollars, which, until I get published and wind up on Oprah with a best seller, I don't have - it just seems almost impossible to find.

    NPR: Could You Be the Great American Novelist?

  • Now, for real world experience, I drive a Volt and get in excess of 120 mpg with the rest being powered by Texas Wind Energy.

    FORBES: Tweet Leads to an Electric Experience

  • But although some still protest about their existence, as the turbines get bigger and improved technology makes them more efficient, the business of wind farms is becoming increasingly profitable.

    CNN: Wind in sails for?energy company

  • "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

  • Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.

    BBC: The classic Bavarian road trip

  • "It does take a while to get the industry re-started, " said Peter Kelley of the American Wind Energy Alliance, which has tracked thousands of layoffs caused by credit uncertainty.

    NPR: US Economy Hamstrung By Washington's Brinksmanship

  • "The big difference with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) compared to wind tunnels is that you not only get results, but also an understanding of what goes on, " said team boss Mario Theissen.

    CNN: The F1 race that no one gets to see

  • But the company's California offices use power from wind and nuclear power sources as well--and consequently get the same amount of energy for a third of the carbon emissions.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Then it goes to a conference committee where the drama will be whether, in a grand twist of irony, President Obama and the Republicans wind up aligned against members of the Democratic Party in an effort to get something realistic on the table before the economy simply slides the rest of the way into a deep crevasse.

    CNN: Commentary: You can blame Pelosi for Democrats' stumbles

  • 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.

    WSJ: Anna Quindlen on a Message Delivered by Tornado | House Call

  • But as soon as people in the market get wind that a big trade is under way, they adjust their prices to take advantage of it.

    ECONOMIST: OptiMistic

  • Everyone was hit with the same wind and water, but those who were unable for whatever reason to get to places of safety, the burden--the blow fell more harshly on the poor than on the privileged.

    NPR: Rebuilding with an Eye to Social Equity

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