After peaking in the spring, world stocks market have been sliding lately amid concerns about a slowdown in world growth and a possible double-dip recession.
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To paint a picture of what exactly these numbers mean, this spring MMO giant World of Warcraft had 11.4 million registered users.
And later this spring, the world will come together in New York to discuss how we can build on this progress, and continue to strengthen the global non-proliferation regime.
Either way, the situation illustrates the primary difference between spring training and the World Baseball Classic.
The bureau will test this spring the compatibility of World Wide Web browsers with software that supports 128-bit encryption, Leslie said.
This marks a crucial development in the Internet's history: Far from being a place where geeks go to hang out with other geeks, the Internet is now as vital a part of the average college student's world as Spring Break.
Some of today's best world music acts spring from the discovery of an obscure passion.
Ponting has played for his country 152 times in the longest form of the game and recorded 99 wins and while he will hope to be part of the Australian team for the one-day World Cup this spring, the selectors may decide to rebuild the Test team without him.
So when Victoria Beckham was pictured wearing the Manolo Blahnik "Monk" shoe designed for her spring 2013 show, the world was treated to a plethora of stories, the gist of which was: now that the queen of the towering heel was in flats, it was safe for the rest of us to wear them, too.
But Russia's new attitude could also spring from a realisation that the world really is changing.
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To help him paint the world orange, last spring Blank hired Anders Moberg as president of international operations.
But he played a pivotal role for the Dominican Republic team that won the World Baseball Classic this spring.
His latest injury setback also means he will play no part in England's 2010 World Cup qualifiers in Spring 2009.
Outside the rich world, the Arab Spring that brought down the governments of Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year was triggered in part by the lack of decent work for young people.
So great is the demand in a world where new organisations spring up almost daily, and firms are increasingly known only by strings of initials, that there are simply not enough to go round.
More than 25 leading private equity and venture funds (the GIIRS Pioneer Funds), as well as over 200 of their portfolio companies in 29 countries around the world participated in the GIIRS world beta earlier this Spring.
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Even so, the drooping real-estate market, combined with declining demand for Chinese exports in Europe and elsewhere, pulled back China's economy to an 8.1% pace in the first quarter of 2012, the slowest growth since the spring of 2009, when the world was in recession.
In the advertising world, the rites of spring cleaning can also be applied to the creative process to give us a fresh perspective.
In January of 1991, Summers became the chief economist at the World Bank, and that spring he recruited Sandberg as a research assistant.
Only in recent years have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.
Only in the last decade or so have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.
If you recall, last year it was revealed that up to 35 percent of the world's spam could spring from one source: a bot known as Mega-D.
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What surprised the world the most about the Arab Spring was not the unpredictability of events, but the level of civility utilized to achieve success.
In the spring, tourists come from all over the world to see the natural wonders: crystalline salt popping out of the ground, sand dunes surrounded by mountains, vibrantly colored, unearthly-looking rock formations and, if there's been enough rain, blooming wildflowers.
But last spring, they became a bullhorn in the Arab world, and a lifeline in Japan.
The U.S. has maintained bases on Okinawa since the World War II battle there in the spring of 1945.
The words for "Wake Up, World, " a song about awaiting spring's return, are written at a first grader's level.
Green automakers around the world have been revving their engines this spring.
During a speech to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles this spring, McCain tried to position himself in the middle of that spectrum.
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