Like spring blossom it is seized on as a sign that the seasons are changing.
The long-legged power flamingos are popping up like spring flowers on a hillside near you.
The number of "for sale" signs in California is exploding like spring pollen.
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.
Many homeowners had been hoping that home values would rise again this spring like they did in the spring of 2009 (they rose 8% between March 30 and mid-August, by Radar Logic's measure).
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He can let them happen one after another, like little spring shoots of doom.
Like a spring with a heavier weight at one end, the vibration frequency is lowered, and flies appear to notice.
Aside from top sellers in chocolate and coffee, the company now controls a quarter of the U.S. market for bottled water, with brands like Poland Spring and San Pellegrino.
In 1978 the Federal Trade Commission required optometrists to release eyeglass prescriptions, allowing chains like Lenscrafters to spring up.
Global events had led to millions of un- and under-employed youth whose frustration with the status quo was being demonstrated by events like the Arab Spring and Occupy movements in the United States.
Heading out to the range or the course each spring is like a living growth chart.
Friend vibrates a lead zirconate titanate crystal, and those vibrations twist a spring-like element attached to a rotor.
The situation was calmer in Georgia, where Atlanta's spring-like high of 76 topped the 1890 record by 1 degree.
By contrast, small businesses in Texas have been sprouting like bluebonnets in the spring to meet the demands of an expanding population.
Each rum is meticulously made from 100% mechanically harvested sugar cane, and fermented with water that is naturally filtered from limestone rich spring ( like bourbon).
To its south, officials say, Europe has leveraged its domestic buying power, trade policy and aid to offer help to post-Arab Spring countries like Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt.
And like many a fellow environmentalist, she is concerned that urban sprawl is now encroaching on surrounding conservation areas like Lake Mead, Spring Mountain and Red Rock Canyon.
The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality.
Los Angeles is a youthful, antsy, many-hued city of makers and doers, power brokers and paradigm shifters, and where great big ideas bloom like Jacaranda flowers in spring.
Michael Kors this month showed a coat worn with shorts, while Vera Wang showed dark-colored sleeveless fur coats and wool shrugs with light chiffon dresses in colorful spring-like prints.
In my yard I grow a type of bearded irises called 'Eternity, ' which puts out violet-scented white flowers not just in spring, like most irises, but again in the fall.
Huawei may close in on Apple by year-end for second place, Lenovo likely enters the Top 5 and Coolpad will almost definitely throw out Nokia from the Top 10 when it enters this Spring, like Lenovo did for Motorola last year.
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It offers 56 megabits per second over a 30-mile radius. (The current standard is 11 megabits per second over a half-mile.) Wi-Max antennas on roofs and water towers will spring up like crazy and may begin to threaten the cable and local telephone empires.
These places, which sprung up on the edges of campuses like dandelions after a spring rain, were the meeting places where students, professors, townspeople, out-of-town academics and other terribly interesting folk would meet, by intention or chance, and talk and learn from one another.
The musical snobbery melts away like the last of the spring snowfall.
In an idealistic speech, Obama highlighted the power of social media and the political importance of the Arab Spring, just like Romney before him at the Clinton Global Initiative.
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In the '90s, Will Smith's summer anthem "Miami" described a never-ending spring break-like atmosphere, surpassing New York and Los Angeles as the place to "party in the city where the heat is on, all night on the beach 'til the break of dawn".
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