It is still unclear when a final decision will be taken about the future of Casualty - the BBC has said is that it will be sometime in the spring.

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The new strain, called H1N1, emerged from pigs and jumped over to humans sometime in late 2008, and then swept through the human population starting in the spring of 2009.

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In Britain, there is talk of pulling many troops out of Iraq sometime in 2007, perhaps as early as the spring.

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That instead of a multi-family boom happening in the spring, we will get a massive collapse in shadow inventory sometime later in the 2012 and a resulting rise in personal consumption expenditures and residential investment.

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Chamberlain hopes that is the case and figures that they are going to have to talk in the cramped Yankee spring training clubhouse sometime.

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