Word: winded
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...Energy a Breeze? I thought I had come to a typo in your article "Got Wind?" when I read about the Michigander who spent $16,000 to get a wind turbine that "can generate 1.5 kilowatts ... enough to power the average light bulb for 15 hours" [Dec. 1]. And that, he admits, is on a day with "decent wind." A few nuclear plants can power more light bulbs than that, and you don't have to sit around waiting for a breeze. Americans need to look at how France is getting nearly 80% of its electricity. Stephanie Gutmann, PIERMONT...
Washington scandals tend to build like snowdrifts. They start with a little flaky business, but if the wind starts blowing hard enough, they can swallow you before you know...
Walking across the wind-whipped plains of the forgotten city, a young Iranian woman dressed in colorful floral garbs points out a sand-dusted tower hovering in the distance like a dormant volcano under a relentless sun. "This is where we put tens of thousands of corpses over the years," she explains with a congenial smile...
...critics of the plan say that is will do little to boost sales, and could wind up being surprisingly expensive. Here's their math: In order to get lenders to make the loans at below market rates, the government would have to basically pay banks the difference between the market rate and the 4.5% they would like banks to lend at - currently 1%. That would still leave a profit of 0.8% on every loan the government helped originate through the program...
...Luhrmann’s new film “Australia” features all the elements of a classic Hollywood adventure and romance. It has the sweeping landscapes of “Lawrence of Arabia,” the dramatic cultural overtures of “Gone With the Wind,” the beautiful bantering leads of “The African Queen,” and the vaguely amusing stock background characters of “Casablanca.” Although “Australia” eventually succeeds in constructing itself as an epic film, it just...