One of those is the new Winter Garden, a glass-enclosed, year-round tea lounge with trees and flowers.

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Archaeologists believe the dwelling would have been occupied on a seasonal basis, probably during the winter months, rather than all year round.

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The statement comes amid speculation that the winter fuel allowance and other payments could be means-tested under a new round of spending cuts.

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Chipshot.com, a golf e-commerce company, could have resorted to equity funding when it was running low on cash last winter, but it wanted to delay another round for 60 daysto let a national ad campaign soak in and to hire key employees.

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In Chicago, more than a third of the district's 675 schools opened Aug. 13, part of a year-round schooling effort that spreads out the school calendar with shorter summer and winter breaks.

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