Ford is working on hybrid vehicles with Toyota, once a lone wolf but now a keen co-operator.

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Are we now looking at someone who is not a lone wolf but someone who might have connections to an overseas plot?

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In just two weeks' time the company has gone from a potential free agent, to a lone wolf, and then back to prospective purchase.

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Christian Fraser says the leaked report does not dispel French police's current working theory that the gunman was local and a "lone wolf".

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Was it a 'lone wolf?

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The thought that two people are involved also shifts the perspective away from this being the work of a so-called lone wolf and towards it being some kind of conspiracy.

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In the mid-1990s, Shenzhen's Konka Group, now a major conglomerate making everything from TVs to mobile phones, was the lone wolf venturing warily into strange and unknown territory.

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For all of our supposed no-nonsense pragmatism, Americans are romantics, and one of the things we love most is the idea of the lone-wolf capitalist: the intrepid, solitary genius who toils in a lab or workshop or office, and suddenly comes up with some startling invention or new way of doing business.

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With a name like N9, however, it was obvious which phone we needed to compare Nokia's lone wolf MeeGo handset to, so out came our trusty N8 with its world-beating 12 megapixel sensor.

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