So Mr Brown's bipartisan figleaf is blowing in the wind.

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The answer, my friends, is not blowing in the wind.

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Wind waves: waves formed in the area in which the wind is blowing.

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"They have not mowed the greens in two days and the wind is still blowing balls off the green, " Beljan wrote on Twitter.

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Instead of placing our fingers in the air to determine which way the wind is blowing, we enlist the help of others to change the direction of the wind.

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The Naughty Dog developers like a good technical and artistic challenge, and creating and rendering realistic-looking sand (in dunes, blowing in the wind, etc.) is no easy feat.

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But Microsoft knows which way the wind is blowing, and it's blowing in favor of customers.

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I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.

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It is also an "enabler" for renewable energy, providing a source of electricity that can step in to fill the gap when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not shining.

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Hearing it is a bit like entering a rickety cabin in the mountains fire crackling, wind blowing.

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Nevertheless, given the way the political wind is blowing, GE Capital should expect to feel a heavier regulatory hand on its shoulder in future.

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