Many of them, with their flimsy umbrellas breaking in the wind and icy rain, didn't know Brown but knew someone who did or benefited from some project he got off the ground.

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After days spent tracking down forms, arguing with inspectors and holding for hours on the phone, "you just wind up breaking down crying, " she said.

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On Friday, I was in Boston -- that's good news. (Applause.) On Friday, I was in Boston, where workers will soon be breaking ground on a new Wind Technology Testing Center that will allow researchers in the United States to test the world's newest and largest wind turbine blades for the very first time.

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And then sounds of people relaxing, lovers relaxing on the beach and talking to one another and the sound of the wind blowing and the sea gulls and the waves breaking.

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"Sometimes this type of publicity will make officers reluctant to do their job, and then we all suffer, or get them overcautious in doing their job, and they do meet a bad guy breaking into a house and try to be too nice and wind up getting killed, " Thomas says.

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We had to turn into the wind to get to him which meant we had waves breaking through the lifeboat.

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