But this Saturday, we all later agreed, was the first day of summer: the smell of plowed fields and first-cut grass, the river flushed by rains, its banks covered with ferns and May apples and early wild flowers, dame's rocket and white trillium.
Ipswich, boosted by the surprise return of captain Gareth McAuley, created the first clear-cut chance of the afternoon.
Hamilton may have lacked a cutting edge in midweek, but they created the first clear-cut chance within eight minutes.
Arsenal midfielder Rosicky squandered the first clear-cut chance when he did superbly to break clear behind the Scots defence, but his attempt to curl the ball home with the outside of his boot flew wide from 12 yards.
In late January, the Reserve Bank of India cut its policy lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point--the first rate cut since April and the second in about four years--but said it had limited room to ease rates further given India's high inflation and wide current-account deficit.
The company did make some compensation changes and halved the dividend--the first cut in the payout since 1992--but rejected the other York proposals.
When the rocket at last blasted off on November 15th, the first-stage engine cut out prematurely, forcing the ground crew to destroy it for safety reasons.
Jones kicked his third penalty deep in first-half injury time to cut Glasgow's lead to 26-14 at the break, but the Scots hit back immediately after the restart.
David Cameron has urged British Euro MPs to back the EU budget deal, which will see its first ever real-terms cut.
That will mean fewer actors getting a cut of first-dollar gross.
Harmonic fell 21 cents, or 4.2%, to 4.75, after the company cut its first-quarter revenue outlook and indicated that earnings would miss projections, citing slower-than-expected order rates earlier in the quarter and a decline in demand from European customers.
In a research note to clients, Lehman Brothers analyst Holly Becker cut her first-quarter earnings estimates, putting them in line with the company's guidance, and reduced her fiscal 2001 earnings estimates to 16 cents per share, from 33 cents.
After submitting a two-page summary, the 300 applicants that make the first cut are invited to Boston to present a 20-minute pitch in front of a panel of local angel investors, venture capitalists and CEOs.
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Research In Motion Limited (RIMM) cut its fiscal first-quarter earnings outlook after the close last night.
City's top scorer Paul Dickov had been well marshalled by the home defence in the first half-hour, but he cut free after 35 minutes only to volley wide.
Aled Thomas cut the gap to 3-13 with his first penalty, but the Dragons defence was cut to pieces minutes later as Selley opened his try account for the season.
Even so, Herman Van Rompuy - the official who will chair the summit - has said that "for the first time ever - there will be a real-terms cut compared to the current budget".
Marketing budgets were the first to get cut at retrenching businesses--and that put the kibosh on press releases.
Andre Nel claimed his first five-wicket haul in Tests to cut the tourists down 105 behind South Africa's 532.
Connacht fly-half Tim Donnelly ended the dismal first half by striking a penalty to cut Ulster's lead to 6-3.
The 145 companies that made the final cut this year include first-time recipients Hasbro, Petco, Realogy and Henry Schein, Inc.
The 138 companies that made the final cut this year include first-time recipients Visa, Sherwin-Williams and 12 other newcomers.
The 110 companies that made the final cut this year include first-time recipients Adidas, eBay, Microsoft, Colgate-Palmolive and 30 other newcomers.
Northern Ireland dominated possession in the first half but failed to create clear-cut chances against a hardworking Faroes team in Toftir.
Mr Osborne has made populist pledges to cut stamp duty for first-time home-buyers and to exempt more people from inheritance tax.
One of the better keynotes was given by Amr Awadallah, chief technology officer at Cloudera, who first cut his teeth on Big-Data meaning extraction at Yahoo.
Pfizer fell 1.36, or 4.5%, to 29.07, the most among the Dow industrials, after the drug maker missed first-quarter earnings and revenue estimates and cut its 2013 outlook.
But there has also been some fiscal easing this year, first from President George Bush's tax-cut plan, which included tax rebates sent to taxpayers over the summer, and then from the extra spending approved by Congress in response to the war on terrorism.
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