1.   After buying everything in sight late last year, consumers apparently took the winter off.

2.   Chief Seattle looked like a winner until Anees rocketed by and trainer John Kimmel said the improving colt will take the winter off.

3.   In one of these essays she takes him winter camping and he admits that he has never slept on the ground before.

4.   Taking winter out of the holidays means facing ingrained holiday imagery head-on.

5.   The Season for the Ages may actually not have ended, only taken the winter off.

6.   The state of emergency declared in the Ottawa region was the first ever for a national capital that normally prides itself on taking winter in stride.

7.   Winter was taken by ambulance from First Union Center to Methodist Hospital for observation and tests, sending a brief scare through the team.

8.   Winter was taken by ambulance from First Union Center to Methodist Hospital for observation and tests but was sitting up and feeling fine, Lakers publicist John Black said.