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• n  wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft

• Ever easier mortgage terms and falling interest rates provided a brisk tailwind for home prices.
• Riding a tailwind, the ball sailed over the left-centerfield bleachers 460 ft.
• But its speed was inflated by a whooping, high-altitude tailwind.

News & Articles

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• 'Newsroom's' Season 2 Consultants: MSNBC's Chris Matthews, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield, New Republic Editor
  The show assembled the editors responsible for the Tailwind controversy for its modern-day retelling, part of a crew of A-list insiders -- from cable news anchors to magazine editors to political strategists. read more        
  June 19, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter
• Don't Fret Higher Mortgage Rates
  NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Housing's been hot lately, with ultra-low supply sending prices higher and fueling a wave of construction starts -- a small but noteworthy economic tailwind. Historically cheap mortgages have been a key driver, but now rates are ticking up. Over the past five weeks, weekly 30-year fixed rates have jumped nearly a 0.6 percentage point, leading some to wonder how higher ...
  June 19, 2013 - TheStreet.com

Quotes

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• Heath Slocum in Ottawa Citizen
  After a while, I was just hoping to get caught up in the tailwind, and he'd drag me along and maybe I could get some birdies,Heath Slocum said. "He played great.......... From the get-go, he put his foot on the gas and never let off."
• Tony Stewart in Insider Racing News
  I was wondering if two and four tires were going to be a factor,said Stewart."We finally got Kyle (Busch) to where we could give him a big push into (Turn) 1 and that was with a tailwind so that was where the least amount of downforce was....
• Richard B Fisher in International Herald Tribune
  Globalization has acted as a tailwind for the Fed's and other central banks' efforts to hold down inflation,Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Fed, said in a speech in Boston in January.