41.   If something cannot be worked out, he said he will test free agency when he becomes eligible next winter.

42.   If he keeps pitching this way, though, he could enter the free-agent market for the first time next winter and make a bundle.

43.   In an interview last week, he said he hopes to try again next winter, if he can solve the mechanical problems.

44.   In any case, Haertel said, he expected that the new rule would stop snowmobiling in the park by next winter.

45.   Inevitably, in Canada or Scandinavia, each ice hotel ends the season in a puddle, and must be reconstructed the next winter.

46.   It is a reason to start thinking about next winter.

47.   It is possible that they could represent the United States and Canada next winter in the Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan.

48.   It made for an appropriate toast to the end of ice-fishing season, the end of being kids again until next winter.

49.   It sounds good now, but wait til Alex Rodriguez hits the market next winter.

50.   It was a debate that appears headed for resolution next winter.