It was highlighted during the debate that adverse weather conditions during the winter months impacts on a range of public services, from the health service to transport infrastructure.

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On her honeymoon, she and husband Olaus Murie (a scientist with the U.S. Biological Survey who later helped write and enact the Wilderness Act) traveled by steamship and then by dog sled through the Brooks Range, in winter.

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For their big mid-winter party, they broke out that tender free-range lamb smoked over a dung fire to mark the halfway point in a long far northern winter.

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The top-end models have about 265 miles of range, reduced in the winter due to slightly lower battery performance but mostly the need to heat the car.

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The city hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, and is within minutes of the Wasatch Range with its four ski resorts, and just half an hour from the Park City and Deer Valley ski resorts.

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As a result, nice, fresh, free-range geese appear in the butcher's case around the winter holidays.

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He said the "lighter later" campaign - which recommends British Summer Time in the winter and British Summer Time plus an hour in the summer - was supported by a range of organisations including Age Concern.

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In fact, the distribution map of Volt deliveries makes it seem like GM consulted with some long-range weather forecasters, many of whom, months ago, predicted that the upcoming winter in the eastern U.S. would be both cold and interminable.

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