Collins addressed his team Saturday night, marking the end of a long spring training.
With these two tenets in mind, I give you my overview of the trends that will matter long after spring 2013 (and, given the weather, I use the term advisedly and loosely) has drawn to a close.
Arab youth defied the status quo long before the Arab Spring.
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Help for Alzheimer's patients remains uncertain and a very long way off, but spring seems to have come a bit closer.
He signed All-Star catcher Yadier Molina to a long-term deal last spring.
The yellow tulips in the back are contrasted with the rows of tulips that have yet to bloom, highlighting a long-awaited yet faithful spring that fulfills its promise of longer days.
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Other investors were looking for cues to sell after the long rally in markets since the spring.
Matthew Weekly, whose first tour of duty at Sather was in spring 2003, not long after the war began.
And he sounded glum about prospects that the two sides will come together in the spring on a separate, long-term budget blueprint to address the government's fiscal problems.
After an upbeat spring driven by consumers on long-withheld shopping sprees, retailers are feeling the hit as something of a hangover sets in and the bills hit mailboxes across America.
Thanks to their state-sponsored cradle-to-grave welfare systems, the UAE and other Gulf Arab monarchies have largely avoided the Arab Spring unrest which has unseated long-serving rulers elsewhere in the past two years.
"We talked about it all spring: We need him for the long haul, " Redmond said.
The long-legged power flamingos are popping up like spring flowers on a hillside near you.
As long as the unemployment rate keeps falling through the spring, he should be home and dry in next year's election.
Although the tragedy occurred on a sunny spring day, swimming pool season on Long Island doesn't ordinarily begin until near Memorial Day.
In the spring of 2012, he signed a long-term contract, albeit one that included a "release clause, " a fixed price for which the club would have to sell him.
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Disney, which is launching the Broadway musical "Newsies" this spring, won't forecast how long "Poppins" will stay on Broadway, though Mr. Schumacher says shows that have made it to five years typically go on for at least two more.
The uprising against Bashar al-Assad began amid the Arab Spring movement in the region that had toppled long-time leaders in Tunisia and Egypt.
How long should it take you to sell your house this spring or summer if you decide to take the plunge and list it?
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The school has long had a presence through NYU Polytechnic and announced last spring that it plans to create an applied-sciences institute at 370 Jay St.
The global economic crisis may have been the match that started this particular Spring, but it has been building for a long time.
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It is the latest in a long line of splashy moves by Miami, who earlier this spring grabbed free agent wideout Mike Wallace and were the biggest spenders in free agency.
The worst city for finding a job this spring: the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island metropolitan area.
There would be a long weekend break at Easter when this fell outside of the fixed spring break.
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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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Unfortunately, the Leica's take-up spool needs a long tapering tongue of film, which users must wedge under a spring clip on the spool's barrel before manually wrapping a few turns of film around it.
The Arab spring will pass into another summer and whether it will be long and parched or a genial transition to mellow fruitfulness will depend on how healthy a balance can be achieved between the conflicting goals and expectations of numerous players.
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