As I said to the President, it was all windup and no pitch.

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As part of the windup of Anglo, the Irish government has been selling off billions of dollars in American assets.

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The driver peered down at what probably looked to him like a toy windup car, and revved his engine a few times.

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But it wasn't until he came upon his grandfather's old windup movie camera that he knew he had finally found his medium.

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It's a mix of odds and ends a high-end flea market with books piled on antique-looking tables, retro windup toys and hand-carved wooden kitchen utensils from Japan.

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If those elections show a swing to the Republicans, it could well marginalize the President on many issues as he starts the windup for the 2012 White House race.

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There are some abrupt transitions, some themes are picked up and then dropped awkwardly, and the windup takes too long while the second half seems rushed, but the ultimate payoff is splendid and moving.

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The British defense journal Jane's Intelligence Digest reported in the spring that the Russian sale of highly advanced S-300PS surface-to-air missiles to Belarus may windup being secretly transferred to Iran as part of a trilateral agreement between Moscow, Minsk, and Tehran.

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At laboratories at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, orthopedists and biomechanists place dozens of sensors on pitchers and have them throw in front of a series of infrared cameras that measure their motions and turn the windup into a three-dimensional computer graphic.

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