With gas prices hitting record levels, consumers need to secure their fall and winter 2006 vacation now ... We are expecting an increase in fuel surcharges on international flights as well as domestic and Caribbean for the upcoming season. This will mark the third fuel surcharge that consumers will be subjected to in 2005 alone.

Jonathan Carroll

For many families, energy just will not be affordable this coming winter heating season.

Mark Wolfe

We're not that far apart. Our goal is to get this completed prior to the winter holiday break.

Bob Brewer

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

If we get a normal winter, we'll probably have enough inventories, but if we get a very harsh winter, inventories could collapse to unseen levels. The oil market would be very jittery with any supply disruptions.

Craig Pennington

He wanted me to help out because he spent a few weeks during the winter in Florida. The next year he was gone a little longer. Finally I told him, I cook all or I cook none.

Douglas Roach

The Banked Slalom has a different feel than other races. It's more low-key. It's a special event. I come up here in the winter and see people I haven't seen all summer, and it's like seeing old friends.

Randy Haugen

We're kind of right in the middle of winter. Talking about springtime weather is kind of jumping the gun.

Roy Miller

Iraqis love soft drinks. They do even in winter.

Walid Sharif

As the winter comes in, the situation has gotten more grim.

Marvin Parvez

I love looking at the tracks in the winter because you get the whole story, what's chasing what and who is hunting who.

Bob Leroy

We're optimistic for Turin because of the success Germans have had in this winter season and last year. They've built up a lot of self-confidence.

Klaus Steinbach

It's going to be a significant, really, a shocking increase in prices this winter that we're anticipating.

Kateri Callahan

While energy costs still remain high, the warmer than usual weather, which has brought natural gas prices down, allows us to take this step now. This is reflected in our reduction in gas costs as well. We want to make these cost savings available to our customers when they need them most this winter.

Hank Linginfelter

It was difficult (to tell) because of their winter coats.

Colleen Segarra

It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.

Dave Andrew

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather

They are the poorest folks ... and they are the ones who are going to be left with nothing. It's going to show up at homeless shelters this winter.

Sheila Crowley

We should be able to place very high in every event against these teams. I was very happy with the way the kids came back from the winter break conditioning-wise, very impressed. The only group that isn't really ready yet is the distance runners.

John Papa

Distillate supplies rose and that's the critical number. Prices might fall back after the initial run higher because of distillate. The weather's been warm so it's not a huge surprise. It's still great to see an increase like that at the beginning of winter.

Rick Mueller

Seasonally, that's the right time to do it. Winter in the airline business is long and cold, and, with these fuel prices, it will be especially long and especially cold this year.

Bob Mann

Regrettably, you have chosen to ignore our express instructions to you, and have traveled to Europe, where you have been attempting to coach our World Cup athletes who are preparing for the Olympic Winter Games. This action not only is in direct contravention of our instructions, it is in defiance of the USOC, and it constitutes clear insubordination.

Terry Kent

We are still not out of the ballpark; they have to make it through this winter. They have to hit 50 millimeters [about 2 inches] to be able to survive over winter. A lot of the ones we looked at in Michigan were in the 30- to 40-millimeter range. They usually quit growing about Sept. 15.

David Jude

You don't expect easy games this time of the year. This is what you work for all fall and winter, why you practice. You have to get to every loose ball, dive for everything. Every possession could be your last.

Patrick Beilein

Tracy (Anderson) and I had talked about having a holiday tournament for some time, and now that our program is stable, we believe this is a perfect time for it. It's going to be in the middle of the winter, and I think that it's going to be easy for us to market, and it'll give us an opportunity to showcase UTPA.

Deann Craft

Their goalie was really good. And once the momentum swung, it was a nice downhill slide for them, like the Winter Carnival [in Quebec City].

Kevin Dineen

Late winter, early spring, this is one of those phenomena you do see. It's usually in these types of fish.

John Steele

Historically, the winter months are the highest-volume months for hospitals, and this year is no exception.

Phyllis Peoples

Last winter was extremely unusual. A winter like that doesn't come around that often and this year is a little dryer then normal. We should have had more rain, many areas in Southern California are well below normal.

Brad Doyle

We returned to more normal winter weather in February.

Michael Mcnamara

We lived 13 miles from the high school and when I played baseball I'd have to hitchhike home, or if it got dark, I walked. I'm fortunate in a way. I didn't play football because nobody wants to walk home in the winter. So my legs didn't get beat up.

John Rebardo

I'd much rather keep summer. I hate the cold, and I hate winter.

Jeff Clark

We have a lot of new faces, a lot of guys in camp. It's going to be great to see the guys again. It has been a pretty long winter.

Gary Majewski

Mother Nature is throwing a winter storm.

Bill Hoffer

The plan is for the dome to cover the fountain in the winter and come off in the summer.

Bob Snyder

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland

We're got senior citizens who have to pay their bills this winter and it's going to be higher than it needs to be.

Brian Baird

It's now in the winter and we should try this out to see if some of these concerns are right on or if we allow this we should monitor it. We should take the opportunity to review the concerns outlined.

Richard Adams

Obviously, you sell more tickets for a Winter Olympics in Switzerland than in Sicily. And since we have the euro and no border checks, it's normal to see more people coming from France than from Sicily, which is farther away.

Giuseppe Gattino

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are extremely worried that before the winter sets in that shelters must be provided with adequate numbers of blankets even if it is two per head, three per head.

V.k. Duggal

When the price goes up, our margins diminish because we're scared to raise the price any higher, ... The way it's been rising, we're not anywhere near our margin. If this winter is cold, it's going to be difficult one for us to hold that margin.

Robert Vaughan

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Sinclair Lewis

Oil futures are looking forward to a much colder-than-expected winter as forecast by many meteorologists. The fact that we have had so many refineries shut down means we are going into this winter on perhaps not enough heating oil.

Gordon Kwan

This is one of the worst (economic) crises of our lifetime, we're facing not the worst winter but a winter that never ends.

George Fulton

It's not going to hurt a thing in your landscape to enjoy the flowers in the middle of winter. They're kind of pretty and allow you to enjoy nature's floral display earlier.

John Marra

I think we just royally confused some winter campers.

Andi Anderson

Are expected to be well supported into the winter.

Lord Browne

It's probably a size 55. This is a project my grandfather and I did in the 70s one snowy winter when we were bored.

Michael Montalto

It's a great, free event. Parents can come with their kids, get some popcorn and balloons, and it doesn't cost a thing. It's just something fun to do on a cold weekend in the winter.

Mary Schmidt

Clearly, we expect significant price expenditures (for heating fuels) this winter compared to last winter.

Guy Caruso

At least in the near term we are seeing a sharp decrease in natural gas prices because the weather has been warmer nationwide and storage levels are running 30 percent above the five-year average. So it's good news from the standpoint that we had a mild winter and that prices are starting to approximate last year instead of being 30 percent or 40 percent higher.

Mark Stutz

This year's mild winter, healthier inventory levels and steady climb in interest rates have made for a busier than normal early spring market.

David Wluka

Wolves need to act naturally, and they won't be able to do that if they are confined to the park. When they are seasonally unemployed during the winter, they will move outside the park.

Rob Edwards

In the fall, I still ran cross country. In the winter you had indoor, in the spring you have track and in the summer I competed in Europe.

A.j. Ellison

The UK could face a digital winter of discontent during the run-up to the next general election.

Philip Virgo

Do not stir up dust or materials that may be contaminated with rodent droppings and urine. Now is a good time to use caution while opening up cabins that have been closed for the winter.

Gary Erbeck

We were playing soccer so we thought it would be a good idea in the winter to get in shape through Nordic skiing. And it really stuck with us.

Tracy Barnes

We've had a very active hurricane season, a weak El Nino, and a hot summer. These things tend to translate into a colder winter.

Matt Rogers

With our farmers here in the U.S., there has been a pretty good movement over the winter. It seems like producer sales are slow, so you're really reliant on South America.

Don Roose

[But others were not so sanguine about the prospect of higher energy prices over the winter.] They are quite ominous, ... I think it would be amazing to see relief coming in the next few months. This is the new world we are entering.

Pietro Nivola

This is the best run of wild, native steelhead we've had during winter in a long time.

Wayne Orzel

Our fingers are crossed for good winter weather.

Tom Kelleher

The best time to prune is late winter or early spring, before buds start to swell and open.

Donna Fare

With the serious energy problems we will face this winter, what DOE is proposing is like shutting down the FEMA regional offices before the next hurricane. These are the extension agents of energy efficiency, and we should be adding to rather than cutting their ranks.

Dan Reicher

Energy prices are soaring all around us, ... If this situation continues, every American family across the country is going to feel the impact this winter and next summer. No one is going to be immune.

Dan Burton

In the U.S., 7 to 10 percent of the population suffer from winter depression.

Dr. Radu Saveanu

We usually make quite a bit of money in the winter. So we're trying to stay busy today.

Brandon Taylor

We are very grateful for the help. Although the earthquake did not destroy our hospital, it is now too dangerous to use. At least we can now carry on providing medical services through the winter.

Tariq Khan

I think Vancouver will be sensational. Canadians love winter sports.

Rene Fasel

The economy has fought us every step of the way, and for us to have delivered that kind of result is a real tribute to the men and women of this company, ... We've been encouraged most recently with lumber prices starting to firm up, and we're very pleased with lawn and garden starting to firm up. People are reinvesting in the exteriors of their homes that were brutalized by the long winter.

Robert Nardelli

I was happy to be on the track again. It seems like it's been a long winter, and I'm ready for the Champ Car season to start. The team has been working hard during the off-season, and we're hoping to keep building on last year's momentum.

A.j. Allmendinger

Most of those fish made it through the winter. They're out there.

Van Riper

A mild winter has allowed the U.S. to avoid much higher energy prices, particularly for natural gas and home heating oil, which could have seriously slowed the expansion. As we head into the spring quarter, the nation's economy is essentially at full capacity with growing pressures on inflation.

Marshall Vest

Call it Winter Part Two. We had a great December, and now that winter's back we're expecting the rest of the season will be terrific, too.

Richard Edwards

February was a successful month for clearance merchandise and many retailers are relieved to have winter gear out of their stores, ... Retailers appear pleased with their pricing strategies for spring and are encouraged that consumers are heading to the stores in larger numbers.

Tracy Mullin

None of these vehicles are abandoned. Many leave them here in the winter and then take them out during the season when they can use them. They pay us to store them here during the winter.

Thomas Colasanto

China is prone to bird flu outbreaks in autumn and winter. The situation is very grave.

Hui Liangyu

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

Henry Beston

We've seen a definite increase in clients who just enjoy being in snow country. They've discovered that a resort vacation in the mountains offers a lot of things and that air travel is often a lot cheaper in winter than in summer.

Craig Cook

It almost looks like this may have traveled down the highway corridors. The roads go through little valleys and there are quite a few deer that go down into the farm fields in the winter for better food. The hypothesis is that the syndrome seems to have traveled down the highway corridors, where the deer population is concentrated, to the coast.

Doug Cottam

That's all you'll see in the winter if this project is built.

Brandon Young

Compared with last winter, it's a lot higher. And as a result, most customers are paying quite a bit more.

Scott Simons

We hope to be fully enclosed by winter and cannot wait to open Ikea Canton.

Joseph Roth

People are going to have huge utility debts. And they're going to end up, a lot of them, shut off in the spring and summer and they're going to carry that debt into next winter.

Glenn Cooper

This time, it is about a third of our customers and that's unusually high. But it has been an unusual winter with the volatility in the natural gas market.

Larry Graham

I am concerned that people are going to be forced to choose between food and heat this winter and that is a burden no person or family should have to endure.

Michael Kelleher

Because he spent a lot of time on the development of the new machine in the winter tests, Nicky had not had sufficient time to find the best set-up for his bike. However, he showed his ability perfectly today, riding aggressively and calmly until the last minute of the race. So, I also want to say to Nicky, thanks for his very good job today.

Makoto Tanaka

This winter season alone we saved more than 5 000 initiates and if it were not for the government's intervention, more than 260 initiates could have died.

Sizwe Kupelo

Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.

Amir Abdulla

We've improved some things over the winter to increase our efforts this year. Our bodies are better, engines are getting where they need to be, and overall infrastructure is growing. Our goal is to get into all 20 races we enter, and really become more competitive this year.

Joe Auer

Everybody's really excited about it. The community's really supporting us. We've had success like this in soccer, but not basketball. It makes the long winter seem a little warmer.

Paul Lancaster

The rising price of gas and oil has spurred a great interest in alternative heating solutions this winter. A Hybrid Heat system will allow homeowners to save money for years to come, since they can always choose which source of heat they would like to use, based on the cost of gas and electricity.

Tim Perry

This winter GMAC rate incentive provides GM Certified customers with excellent value and affordable financing rates on some of our most popular vehicles. GM Certified Used Vehicles continues to lead the certified pre-owned category in delivering top-quality, low-mileage, fully inspected and reconditioned vehicles that help build consumer confidence in GM products.

Paul Pejza

I wanted to keep the golf dome open because of the demand from the public for a place to golf in the winter. And we were profitable in the first month (December). But we just don't have enough employees to run another entity.

Chris Peterson

With predictions of more price increases next winter, the government must act now to make sure pensioners have enough money in their pockets to cover basic living costs.

Gordon Lishman

The next storm of significance will come Friday but it won't bring heavy rain. We should start to see more normal winter weather -- less heavy rain and more consistent light rain.

Tiffani Brown

I entered swimming this year, ... Bill and I used to spend some of our time in Green Valley, Ariz. When we lived in our winter home in Arizona, I did track and field, swimming, and softball throw. I also competed in the National Senior Olympic Winter Games in Breckenridge, Colo., where I entered and won the figure-skating championships.

Maureen Reynolds

For two months after I couldn't even go in [the barn] and look at the tractor, ... But as I went through the winter, I got the fever again and couldn't help myself.

Allen Moore

We're extremely grateful for the broad coverage of hockey the NBC family is providing from the Olympic Winter Games. We hope that our teams will perform well and that the exposure will enhance our efforts to further grow the game in the U.S.

Dave Ogrean

I knew we weren't going to get a lot of runs off Matt. That's why I pulled Ronnie so quick. We had Crumbly ready to go. We made two errors, and against a team like Winter Haven, you can't have any errors.

Bill Bullock

This was the big obstacleto get him back, make sure he ran the race that he did last winter here, and he did that, ... From here, Ill just train him like any other horse and come back a month from now in the Breeders Cup.

Richard Mandella

Overall, it was good. I think everyone is improving. They did much better than they did last week [in regards to] coming back [from winter break] and then, right away, jumping into meets. So I thought we had some very good performances.

Julie Lafreniere

The only thing that could have gone better was for it to be 75 degrees today like it's been all winter here and for us to have a better surface to run on. I think the most impressive thing about today was he had the best workout any running back has had and did it in the worst conditions.

Jimmy Sexton

The conditions were awesome this year because Vail opened to full-on winter skiing. We were riding in the trees on the first day. They were filled in pretty quickly and that's rare.

Sara Mcclure

It?s a lot of fun for everyone who plays and everyone who comes to watch. People really get into it. Last year?s Town Hall team dressed in St. Patrick?s Day garb, while the year before they brought us out of the winter blues with a Hawaiian dress theme, complete with leis. You forget the fact that it?s a fund-raiser.

Sally Brown

Indian River oranges and Ruskin tomatoes, as much as the beach and the postcard, helped shape Florida's image as a winter paradise and bountiful dream state.

Gary Mormino

They're still thinking gung-ho winter in February, but March is iffy. In southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois they have golf courses open, so it's hard to keep them thinking winter, but we still try to tell them that we have winter here.

Ricky Kelly

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

Bob Uecker

Its not going to hurt it to let it go over the winter. The road may be a little rougher but its not a safety problem.

Chris Baldwin

It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're going to have to work hard in (winter) mat drills, things like that, to hopefully keep it there.

Gaines Adams

We are aiming for double digits. We have won 90 medals so far in Winter Games and hope to reach the 100 mark.

Raffaele Pagnozzi

We found there was an ebb in spirit in the winter, between winter and spring break.

Andy Zweizig

The kids seem excited. The new coach has a lot of good ideas and had them doing drills over the winter.

Lynda Scott

We didn't stop construction this winter. We've got more than 12,000 cubic yards of concrete in there now. It's more than half way.

Ken Beck

It's what we have been fearing all along. The winter is now with us.

Larry Hollingworth

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year.

John Logan

Two hundred years ago cooking was very time consuming. Actually, for most families until after the 1850s, foods were very limited in their variety. The average winter diet of a southern American was fat back and corn-mill, along with some wheat products that you could store through winter.

Kathryn Beach

It is so obvious and so blatant. Since this winter, I have never seen it as bad as it's gotten recently.

Michael Payne

It seems Mother Nature has mildly apologized for beating us so badly in August and September. But we're not out of the winter yet. A warm January doesn't mean it's going to be a warm February, and the way the natural gas market is, it's a very tight market, which leads to volatile prices.

Tancred Lidderdale

I had a call this winter from someone who had a citrus tree and wanted me to try to diagnose it over the phone.

David Griffis

Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It's given us an opportunity to play golf 12 months out of the year, which is unusual for northern Indiana. It's the mainstay of our winter operation.

Lenny Shaw

Our strong performance in winter testing has given everybody a genuine boost in motivation.

Bob Bell

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.

Michael Drayton

The fall gave me the opportunity to see a lot of my new players in action and how the older players fit with them. It also gives me an idea of where their weaknesses are so we can build on them during the winter months and make corrections and improvements.

Therese Hession

In the summer, Pat and I play every weekend on both Saturday and Sunday. In the winter months we travel to places like Florida and Phoenix to golf with friends. I've played a Greg Norman course and was excited to find out he would be designing and building a course in East Tennessee.

Steve Newberry

Kiwis need to Push Play for 30 minutes a day on most days of the week to reap health benefits. Winter is not an excuse to hang up the trainers.

Deb Hurdle

While flight delays certainly occur all year long, winter weather can increase their likelihood.

Rally Caparas

Investors are becoming bullish on the sales outlook for electronics industries. Retailers may continue to rise on expectations that increased winter sales will boost corporate earnings.

Atsushi Osa

Because it's been so mild this winter, because we haven't had any significant ice formations, it appears as though there is a good likelihood we won't see ice on the lake.

Francis Brautigam

A ship with a capacity of 500 that carries 30 passengers in winter is a loss-making one. We, however, can help the situation with 19-person loads, which is our full capacity.

Tassos Govas

We used to do a summer picnic, and it was hard to get people together in the summer. We thought the winter would be a good time, football's over, and it was just a time with nothing really going on in February.

Doug Lownik

I think if the rest of the hurricane season doesn't cause disruptions, and global supplies stay as they are, we should see prices pulling back into in the low to mid-$50's, without a recession. We could be in the high $40's if it's a warm winter.

Sheraz Mian

A lot of the lads have been at the Academy this winter so we have been training quite hard in indoor school, so to get outside and get a bit of Caribbean sunshine and get some competitive cricket is very exciting for everybody. So we are looking forward to it.

Peter Moores

It's just sitting out there churning like a winter storm, and it's taking foot after foot of shoreline. I would rather just have it come ashore and get it over with.

Jeff Warren

In a normal winter flu year... flu actually kills in excess of 12,000 people.

Sir Liam Donaldson

We got a little wet. We got blasted, man. We were on top of a sub, on top of a boat, submerged underwater when we get thrown off the sub and the boat. It was winter there, and we were wearing wet suits, but you still get cold and damp. It was intense.

Catherine Bell

You'd think that in the winter months, people wouldn't use the park as much. Surprisingly, we have found the opposite to be true. Members bring their pets here if snow is on the ground or if it's raining outside.

Megan Owens

It's the first time I had the whole entire winter off. I'm ready to get back at it.

Gary Majewski

Like everyone else, I knew there was a possibility Jerry might not ride the whole winter, but I told him before the meet began that as long as he was still riding and the horse was doing well he'd have the mount. At the moment, Edgar has the call for the Hutcheson and we've committed to nothing else beyond that point. In this game you never want to get too far ahead of yourself.

Frank Brothers

The sugaring business is the first agricultural crop of the season, an excuse to get out after being indoors all winter, and a chance to earn some extra income.

Jacques Couture

We've been going at that tempo since we started winter workouts; we're kind of used to it even though we're on the field for 2 hours and 30 minutes (Monday). Everybody is doing something; nobody sits around. Coach is just trying to find out what everyone's talents are. Guys he sees that are good at something, they'll play.

Thaddaeus Washington

In the Cape we are responding to technical challenges that impact on power supply. Going into the winter, we know the system will be tight but we know we can manage that.

Fani Zulu

Take a newspaper and wrap it around the trunk. The newsprint will reflect off the trunk and prevent it from getting winter injury. Don't wrap it too tight though.

Deborah Benge Frost

The implication is that raw winter weather may have depressed starts last month, particularly late in the month. Even so, starts remained above the 2003 average [of] 1.85 million [units].

Maury Harris

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Ruth Stout

We're getting more playing time. I've been playing indoors all winter.

Stephen Havens

Winter is fast approaching and it is getting really, really cold out there.

Simon Gray

The warmer weather in October and November depressed prices for the front part of the season, but it's still going to be expensive as we continue through the winter.

Tancred Lidderdale

On Thursday morning if it's delayed, we get bombarded (with calls) -- which, to us, sometimes seems crazy. But this has been a very sensitive winter. We try to get it into everyone's hands at the same time.

Jon Davis

This is exactly what I needed. Throwing the ball inside all winter is kind of boring to me. I need to be outside ripping it around.

Ricky Santos

Everyone's vision is that Wellington can be more than the winter equestrian capital. I think it can be the equestrian capital -- winter, spring and fall.

David Burton

It looks more likely that we might wait until the worst part of the winter is over.

Brent Miller

This is the worst winter in 28 years.

Alexei Gordeyev

Carlos has already been impressive. Getting him and Scott on the team from baseball gives us an added boost. Scott is very strong and athletic, and he picked up the game quickly this winter during the off-season.

Andy Zantow

Historically, steelhead would come back to spawn in the winter over three, four and even five months, depending on the stream. They would arrive around Thanksgiving and continue through March.

Stan Gregory

I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer.

Brendan Behan

Rocket fuel has no place in Southern California's most important water supply. The River provides water to more than 135 California cities, irrigates much of the nation's winter produce, and supports a $400 billion Southern California economy.

Sujatha Jahagirdar

She hit her spots, like we worked on all winter. She only missed two spots the whole game, and that was a key to keeping them off the scoreboard.

Mike Tate

I got the itch again. The winter before last, I came home, and it dumped the whole time. I skied epic Steamboat powder and was like, OK, I need to get back to the mountains. I transferred to (the University of Colorado) and just wanted to get back to recreation skiing.

Brett Buckles

This is where we showcase cultural holidays such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year and the Winter Solstice.

John Beckman

She worries that Daisy's going to get cold in the winter, so I brought this blanket over.

Mary Phillips

The concern is that the maximum amount a household can receive has not changed to match the rising cost of home heating fuel. I suppose right now we're doing a lot of praying that that it's not going to be as hard a winter as it could be.

Judy Kennedy

There's still plenty of winter left.

Jim Engel

We're very thankful for December. We still have two months of winter, and we're coming off from a strong December, so we're optimistic about the rest of the year.

Joan O'neill

Last winter a group of us got together to coordinate various dining programs between the MU and UHDS.

Richard Turnbull

A stronger, more flexible body will tolerate a fall better. The underlying message is that snowboarding and skiing safety have to entail a lifestyle commitment. Maintaining a proper fitness level is essential and winter athletes need to incorporate it naturally into their fitness routines.

Dean Walker

It's easily distinguishable. When the Winter Olympics were taking place one year, I was watching skiing, and in the background I saw someone with a WVU hat on. It was easy to pick out. And I was watching the New York Yankees play the Boston Red Sox last year, and behind the batter there was a fan with a WV ball cap.

Mike Parsons

He's not a hermit, and he doesn't hide behind trees or anything, He's been rather active in the community. The largest charity fundraiser in South Florida is the Naples Winter Wine Festival. He's a director of that.

Phil Lewis

We have reached a lot of families who were made homeless by the earthquake. But there are still enormous numbers of people that will require warm bedding and protection from the fierce winter weather if we're to avert another humanitarian crisis.

John Mason Brown

Snow-making technology and the best December in memory has really made it fine for us. The snow is so dense that it insulates itself. [The warmer weather] is not having much of an effect except everyone doesn't have to wear big, bulky winter clothes.

Shannon Mcsweeney

He'll be more a Brisbane winter carnival horse for the Sires Produce.

Duncan Grimley

We must see how much of that offshore gas gets back up and how cold the winter is. It's going to be very tight to see whether we have enough natural gas for the winter.

Tina Vital

I wouldn't take the warm weather and the price drop as the reason to … celebrate yet. There is still three more months of winter ahead of us.

Tancred Lidderdale

These 80 acres were planted in winter rye. The seed germinated and the plants grew three or four inches then died.

Dan Lynn

In creating this event, we researched some really cold winter events, taking into consideration fun for the family and celebrating what's great about winter in Michigan. Last year was a huge success and we promise an even more spectacular event in 2006 -- the perfect backdrop for Super Bowl XL.

Jonathan Witz

He came to me in the winter and said we were using the wrong approach to reach out to Latinos.

Scott Armstrong

It was a tough, long winter, ... I was on crutches for eight weeks and really got into rehabilitation. It wasn't until March of the following year that I was able to play golf again and even then it was very tender.

Bryan Norton

The company's salt acquisitions are paying off big time thanks to the winter weather.

Silke Stegemann

Now kids have their parents drop them off at school in cars. Back then in these types of tiny towns there still weren't many cars - tractors maybe - but not cars in winter.

Marco Andreatta

If we let climate change run its course, this could be a fairly typical winter 30 or 40 years from now.

Gordon Hamilton

We will play in the Hampstead, Wilmington-Myrtle Beach area throughout the fall, winter and spring.

Chris Sullivan

We are excited that our guests will have an opportunity to be honorary Ski Team members for a day. New England skiers have an opportunity to share their devoted passion toward winter sports as the U.S. teams try to bring home the gold.

Debbie Moore

If natural gas spikes up on a particular day, it could be the result of a report. This winter is a classic example that the Thursday reports can have a major impact on things.

Jon Davis

With these Olympics, I kind of miss it. Any kind of winter sport like that you wish you were good at, but I can't complain where I am today.

Adam Stern

This winter we're going to build a couple of new cars and update our equipment by about nine years, ... Then we're going to go for it again.

John Bender

It's not that bad for the time of year. You've got to have a little bit of winter, whether you like it or not.

Patrick Maloit

In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week.

Alvin Anderson

We wanted to hang tight with Winter Haven and see how they would react if we stayed in the game. They did a good job, though, and stayed up on us.

Jeff Pafunda

She was supposed to be 16 to be on the development team, but they let her train with them at age 15. She went to Winter School in Park City. Carrie moved down there to an apartment after her freshman year to be closer to her.

Norma Domin

With the winter to summer transition, there's no air mattress below the high wire as far as surplus gas is concerned.

Angela Veitch

Most of the marsh where that salt water sat for a long time looks dead. It looks like it is does extremely late in the winter and you've had several extreme frosts. Where we found birds, they seemed to be concentrated in the habitat that was not impacted by the storm.

Robert Helm

Bears will on occasion come out of their winter den, wander around and go back in. But they'll stay close to the den site.

Gary Olson

People like to eat outside here. In the summer our picnic tables are full and people eat their fish with cold beer from the Legion hall. In the winter, we still have our customers. But it's a lot quieter.

Mimi Henson

Even without specific numbers in front of me, we have to be spending more money because it costs more at the pump. One of the things we talked about is the money we saved from the mild winter being absorbed by gas prices.

Mayor Richard Mavis

We have several auction items that are favorites with our members. That is a beautiful place to go in the summer or winter.

Steve Rowe

It was a good year for people who have been skiing for a few years and have the winter-weather gear to endure high winds and cool temperatures.

Rick Saul

After the winter break, I've been shooting the ball so much better. It has carried over into the games. My dad hit that big shot against Harrison, so it feels good to hit one on this floor for Harrison.

Christian Mathew

Based on a composite of analyses, we are usually able to identify four or five analog years that had similar conditions during the first several months of the year, which helps us predict what the weather may be like in the fall and winter.

George Taylor