This is supposedly the worst spring ever for pollen, that's what everyone's saying.

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But the moment before all this, when none of us can be sure that spring will ever arrive.

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The deal market is grinding to a halt after a sustained boom that reached a climax in the spring with six of the largest buyouts ever, including Blackstone's deal for Equity Office Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' deals for TXU and First Data, among others.

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He has been campaigning ever since deciding to run for the party primary in the spring of 2011.

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"No one's ever attempted anything on this scale, " Vice said of this spring's planned air drop.

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There are plans to showcase Welsh composer Lynne Plowman's first ever opera ''Gwyneth and the Green Knight' in the spring, following a successful tour of Wales and England in 2002.

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He has attended 53 Harvard basketball games in four years and flew to Salt Lake City this week on spring break to see his team try to win its first-ever NCAA tournament game.

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Little did Papa realize that morning that he was never to see us or hold us again, nor would he ever again harken to the meadowlarks of Yell County trilling a joyous anthem to spring.

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The beginning of The Rite of Spring was the most foreign, exotic and evocative music I'd ever heard.

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Now, more than ever, we expect change overnight, and while it appeared to change that quickly in the Middle East this spring, deep, meaningful and sustained change takes a long time.

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