"I believe we can climb the table when the season starts after the winter break, " said Short.

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The incident, the worst ever that the industry has seen, occurred in the busy winter season when factories are working round the clock to meet springtime orders.

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Red Bull did not test the constructors' championship-winning RB6 in the first winter testing session of 2010 and suffered early-season problems when Sebastian Vettel lost the lead at the Bahrain Grand Prix because of a spark plug problem, finishing fourth as a result, before retiring in the following race in Australia with a wheel problem.

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It never ceases to amaze me how background conditions work out to continue the long history of the market making most of its gains each year in the winter months and when there is a correction of any degree it almost always takes place in the unfavorable season between May and November.

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Fall is when gas pipeline companies build up their stockpiles for the winter heating season.

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But at this point, people in the Rockies and Midwest would have been happy if it felt like spring when the season officially began -- on Wednesday -- as winter won't go quietly.

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Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.

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