He galvanized the newsroom to perform in spectacular fashion, and that spring the Times won seven Pulitzer Prizes.

NEWYORKER: Changing Times

The use of a rechargeable battery, which can be charged up with energy from the spring several times, and then occasionally topped up during use, dramatically reduces its size and weight.

ECONOMIST: Clockwork technology

Liberal Democrats are gathering in Brighton for their spring conference during troubled times for the party.

BBC: Menzies Campbell: Lib Dem 'death' rumours 'exaggerated'

Late spring and summer are usually thought of as the best times to put a home on the market because buyer demand builds steadily through spring.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Crackle App, which offers users a free experience that features ad-supported, full-length and unedited Hollywood films, television series and original series, has been downloaded more than 11 million times since its launch in Spring 2011.

ENGADGET: Crackle's free movie streaming expands to the Nook Tablet, Android and iOS apps updated for TV playback

Last spring, he added quarterly televised news conferences four times a year.

FORBES: Ben Bernanke & Co. Join the Twitterverse

Mr. Deripaska's group said it had acquired 10% of Hochtief last spring, when the construction company was trading at about three times its level today.

WSJ: Russia's Deripaska Faces Western Investigations

Having made the Piano Concerto No. 2 a virtual calling card by performing it more than two-dozen times last year, Mr. Bronfman returns to the piece this spring.

WSJ: The Importance of Second Chances | Yefim Bronfman | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein

Nongfu Spring, one of the China's biggest water producers, is suing Beijing Times for alleging that its bottled water did not meet national water quality standards, but instead adhered to a lower provincial standard.

BBC: China media: Middle East mediation

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