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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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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