But the potential for progress has become possible in many cases through changes such as in countries touched by the Arab Spring as well as in Myanmar and South Sudan.
Meanwhile, tumult also swept through the upper levels of South African rugby later in the spring, as the country's National Sports Council ordered the chiefs of the embattled SARFU, headed by Louis Luyt, to resign or face sanctions for failing to change to reflect South Africa's transition from apartheid.
This year, the 31-year-old will be the first-choice goalkeeper in a U.S. team tipped by many to spring surprises in the sport's showpiece tournament in South Africa.
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King of Prussia has a few tour dates planned around the south for the spring, along with a SXSW Kindercore Records showcase in March.
Mike Yavonditte is quick to dismiss chatter about his 5-month old company Hashable, a mobile networking site, becoming the darling or breakout company of the 2011 South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) in Austin, the so-called spring break for geeks.
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In the spring of 1975 Hanoi launched a conventional military offensive and conquered South Vietnam.
In the spring of 1997, Meyer Kahn, 58, chairman of South African Breweries, got a phone call that really startled him.
We pushed forward in the spring and reached a line not far from that dividing North and South Korea today.
Health boards in south Wales are expected to unveil proposals later in the spring.
Last spring a tornado in Georgia wiped out the primary and backup data centers at Sumter Regional Hospital in South Carolina.
After our defeat in Vietnam in the spring of 1975 (Congress refused Ford's pleas to give material assistance to our South Vietnamese allies, even though the U.S. had promised such aid under the "peace" accords two years before), people wondered whether North Korea might again strike at South Korea, figuring the U.S. wouldn't have the stomach to resist.
Outside a store in Denver planned for a spring 2000 opening, customers will test-paddle kayaks and canoes on the South Platte River.
Delegates to the Forbes Global CEO Conference have been nearly unanimous in a couple of reviews: Sydney is showing itself spectacularly with gorgeous spring weather and the premier of New South Wales is similarly a personal hit.
"I heard it while I was out there, " said Harris, who served on ships in the Middle East and off the coast of South America, among other places, and now expects to start the season in extended spring training.
The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, which reported one case of H1N1 last spring, is taking extra precautions ahead of the fall semester.
With minimal narration and swift explanatory titles, the director sweeps viewers up in the surging movements of huge flocks that swarm from north to south every fall and back again in spring.
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