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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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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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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