Word: winded
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...just the bike but what the company stands for that can make people enjoy the ride too," he says. Heading to the airport on the back of a Buell, I'm beginning to understand. The smooth, hour-long journey along the highway--tunes blaring, my leathers flapping in the wind--was exhilarating but strangely relaxing. I stepped onto the plane feeling just a little bit cooler...
...Iraq. Filkins likened the aftermath of the American army’s successful march into Baghdad to a winning football team’s loss in the fourth quarter of the game, saying that “in the space of just a couple hours, you could feel the wind go out.” At the end of the lecture, audience member Michelle A. Payne, whose brother served in Filkins’s unit, asked Filkins about an episode in his book, in which an excursion by Filkins and his photographer resulted in the death of a marine. Payne...
...over the past several years, fossil fuel prices were surging as well; the cost of oil exceeded $150 a barrel at one point this year. The economic slowdown has shrunk those prices just as quickly, with oil now dipping below $95 a barrel. That makes renewable energy projects like wind and solar, which have to compete with fossil fuels on straight cost until a carbon price is passed, less attractive. Michael Liebreich, the chairman of the research group New Energy Finance, argued in a recent briefing that the financial crisis might make governments less willing to extend preferential subsidies...
...Weathermen formed as a radical offshoot of the 1960s student activist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). A manifesto, which circulated around a June 1969 SDS convention, took its title from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," it read, and thus became known as the Weatherman statement. While SDS promoted nonviolent protests, the Weathermen aligned themselves with violent groups like the Black Panthers. "There is no example of a peaceful road to fundamental social change," wrote Weatherman-founder David Gilbert...
...late 1990s. When Obama first ran for Illinois state senator in 1995, he attended a campaign event at Ayers' house. In 2001 Ayers donated $200 to Obama's state senator re-election campaign. By the time the two men met, Ayers' days as a Weatherman had long passed. The wind had blown him another...