• "This effectively means that the data collection for the EIAs will be conducted within the short summer season, since the companies involved only started them in Spring 2000, " said Arni Finnsson of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association.

    CNN: Iceland locked in national dam dispute

  • "I ... would like to remind people that in 1918 the Spanish flu showed a surge in the spring, and then disappeared in the summer months, only to return in the autumn of 1918 with a vengeance, " Hartl said.

    CNN: Confirmed cases of H1N1 virus approach 900

  • For a start, the new Xbox 360 is launching several months before its main rival, Sony's PlayStation 3, which is expected to appear in Japan next spring and in America only later in the year. (Nintendo's next console, the Revolution, is also due in 2006.) One of the reasons the PlayStation 2 did so well was that it got to market before its rivals, which never caught up.

    ECONOMIST: Microsoft

  • Since the program was announced in the spring of 2000, only 4, 000 patients have received the Pfizer antifungal in 120 of the several thousand public clinics and hospitals.

    FORBES: Doing badly by doing good

  • Rodeo Drive--by-the-Sea, are a safe car ride's distance away--the teenagers are few and the only music in spring belongs to birds.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "Most papers relaunch from a position of weakness - that's why they're relaunching, " remarked Piers Morgan when he relaunched the Daily Mirror in the spring of 2002, only to be sacked two years later over the hoax pictures his paper carried of troops of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment supposedly torturing Iraqi prisoners.

    BBC: "I think it's great, and it leaves more room on the counter."

  • But the appetite for compromise has grown blunter since the assembly elections last spring in which the party won only 28 seats, half of those obtained by unionists.

    ECONOMIST: Trimble��s gamble

  • During the flu pandemic of 1918, cases began in the spring and then faded away during the summer, only to come back with a vengeance in the fall and winter.

    CNN: Commentary: Flu shouldn't close Mexico border

  • Should we be reassured that Britain is the only advanced economy to see a major downward revision in its forecast since the spring?

    BBC: IMF expects less of the UK and a lot of the US and Europe

  • By storing excess electrical energy that is generated by the dynamo in a capacitor, and getting the spring to unwind only when the capacitor charge falls below a certain threshold, it has proved possible to extend the playing time of the second-generation radio to about an hour.

    ECONOMIST: Clockwork technology

  • Libya was the Arab Spring's first true revolution, the only one in which the revolutionaries now hold the levers of power.

    CNN: Jubilation and hard work ahead for Libya

  • The President also pledged to seek fresh commitments for reform from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who had been appointed in the spring of 2006, and who had worked to only a limited extent with the Bush Administration.

    NEWYORKER: The General��s Dilemma

  • Only when the economy failed to gain momentum in the spring did the market slip back.

    CNN: Commentary: Is it 1929 all over again?

  • It was only after the passage of the Bush tax cuts in the spring of 2003 that equities-and the economy-firmly recovered.

    FORBES: Needed: Space-Age Approaches to Space

  • It was only after the passage of the Bush tax cuts in the spring of 2003 that equities--and the economy--firmly recovered.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • In fact, the company has only recently begun to better leverage its strong performance brand name in footwear, and this spring will try to make a mark in the bra business.

    FORBES: Don't Lose Your Shirt In Under Armour Before Earnings

  • The entrepreneurs delivered a full spring line only in 2003.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In the early spring of 1972, when exams were only weeks away, I found a new boyfriend, a historian called Jeremy Mott.

    NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

  • The New York Aquarium will reopen, only partially, in late spring.

    WSJ: NYC's Coney Island hopes for rebound after Sandy

  • The Spring of Nations only lasted a year but set in motion the changes that led to all the major monarchies of Europe eventually falling over the next 100 years.

    FORBES: The Arab Spring -- Energy And The Road To Democracy?

  • It all seems like a mirage, and as such it will vanish as the land dries out, only to spring to life again in a few years or a decade's time.

    BBC: Watching Australia's wildlife

  • With the retroactive raise they negotiated, it will take only until next spring at the latest for them to recoup their losses in cash, even if shares stay flat.

    FORBES: United We Fall

  • In practice then, only one date looks auspicious for a referendum: the spring of 2003, by which time the euro will (presumably) have settled in as a physical currency.

    ECONOMIST: Britain and the euro

  • It says it will reintroduce the food-safety bill in Parliament this spring, with only minor changes.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • Since Obama first announced his wish to sit down with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a Democratic presidential candidates' debate in the spring of 2008, the 44th US president's only strategy for dealing with Iran has been to appease its leaders.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Sarah Palin's friendship

  • Consider the inspiring relationship between two basketball legends: Bobby Knight was only 25 when he recruited a young Mike Krzyzewski to play college basketball for him in the Spring of 1965.

    FORBES: Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski Knew It: The Business Value Of A World-Class Coach

  • Dickey bounced around the minors for a decade and a half and only two years ago had the ignominious distinction of being the first player cut by the Mets in spring training.

    FORBES: Why Cy Young Winner R.A. Dickey is the Ultimate Moneyball Pitcher

  • It was a little bizarre this winter and spring, as they soared toward the best record in the conference, only to watch the ragged and volatile Knicks take all the headlines with their various, overdramatic ascensions and implosions.

    WSJ: Jason Gay: Lundsanity's No Passing Fad

  • Only in recent years have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.

    FORBES: Fact And Comment

  • Mr Sarkozy wants to tell French voters ahead of this spring's presidential election that only he is up to the task of protecting them in hard times.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

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