They include basketball, chess, tennis and violin playing, Johansson found, yet a rapidly increasing range of lucky breaks spring from our capacity to recognize and seize unexpected opportunities.

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Heading out to the range or the course each spring is like a living growth chart.

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It is preparing a wide range of tax cuts for the spring budget.

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The spring sale also offers a range of important sapphires from top producing regions, including Kashmir and Burma.

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After a battle over planning reform, in the spring the government and a range of opponents appeared to reach a truce.

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In terms of the length of time, emotionally, it's unclear, and economically, it's not out of the range of possibilities to see a much stronger economy by the spring of 2002.

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"This will mean that we are able to offer a whole range of further facilities to house television production, international feature films and multimedia businesses by the spring of 2007, " he said.

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Starbucks is in the testing phase of its La Boulange (acquired in June 2012) bakery products in select stores, and eventually plans to roll out the entire range in 2, 500 of its company-operated stores across the U.S., beginning in the spring of 2013.

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