Business owners just want the fighting to end before the busy winter season.

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That's nearly half the population, who must be resettled before the winter rainy season if they are to plant the single annual rice crop.

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"We're quite optimistic about the progression of the operation and if everything goes as planned we hope most of the work will be over before the start of the winter season, " said Rima Tarabay, Vice-President of Bahr Loubnan.

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The Godolphin stables train horses in Dubai during the U.K. winter before moving them to England for the summer racing season.

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He spent the winter before the 2012 season changing his swing, hoping it would make him a .290 hitter again, despite the defensive shifts and the effects of age.

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Even Cashman grows what he calls his "winter goatee, " shaving it before the start of every season. (Girardi has never grown facial hair, saying he has "spots" that don't fill in.) So normally, it's no cause for concern.

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While the various launches give an initial impression of each team's work in winter testing, all the cars can expect further modifications before the 2009 F1 season begins on 29 March in Melbourne, Australia.

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Every season, the Bundesliga takes a monthlong break right in the middle of the harsh Northern European winter, from just before Christmas to late January.

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On Monday, Thomas Lonngren, the head of the European Medicines Agency, said such a human vaccine might not be ready before next year's winter flu season.

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