Governments and corporations have long considered the eve of a long holiday weekend the best time for dumping embarrassing or unpleasant news.
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In Japan, the Nikkei Stock Average surged 3.6% to a near five-year high, following a long holiday weekend.
In Lisbon Mr Chapman picked up his German salary and a bonus for good work, went on a long holiday in Norway and then to Berlin to get his Iron Cross.
The warm weather and a long bank holiday has seen people flock to coastal resorts.
By Tuesday this week, when Delhi emerged from a long holiday weekend, only 1, 500 buses were on the roads.
For three weeks (following a long summer holiday) parliamentary business is suspended while politicians go off to contemplate their partisan navels.
The U.S. gains came on the back of strong advances in European markets, which reopened Tuesday after a long holiday weekend.
The broad U.S. gains came on the back of strong advances in European markets, which reopened Tuesday after a long holiday weekend.
The broad U.S. gains came on the back of strong gains in European markets, which reopened Tuesday after a long holiday weekend.
Thus, he continued, it will be important for bulls to see gold settle higher when traders resume from a long holiday weekend on Tuesday.
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He said consumers should just think of the situation as a long holiday weekend -- they should have just a little extra food on hand.
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The idea is that if Memorial Day was not simply a long weekend holiday for going to the beach and grilling, more Americans might actually realize that it has a deeper and much more somber meaning.
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See how the leaders act today, to see if we can get some type of oversold bounce as some might try and flatten out as we have a long holiday weekend combined with a Jobs Friday.
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Mrs Dunne and her husband Christopher, who was severely injured, were on a week-long holiday in Scotland to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.
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Nearly fifteen years had passed since Ruma's only European adventure, a month-long EuroRail holiday she'd taken with two girlfriends after college, with money saved up from her salary as a para- legal.
There's always a buzz in Cleveland for the first home game, a date the locals have long treated like a national holiday.
In recent years, the Ferrari ace has made a habit of taking a long break over the winter in his holiday home in Norway.
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After a long U.S. holiday weekend it was a subdued market place on Tuesday.
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After a long U.S. holiday weekend traders will again focus on quarterly corporate earnings reports.
Eating healthy on the road has long been a struggle for holiday travelers.
In recent years, the berries have come a long way, from a holiday side dish to a year-round big business.
It seems at the end of a long year, around the holiday season, a pretty awful thing to play politics about.
Earlier this month Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Mr Crabb also questioned a call by the Tory assembly group to make St David's Day a public holiday in Wales - a long standing Welsh Conservative policy.
The drivers went on strike on Boxing Day in a long-running dispute over bank holiday pay, disrupting services.
It showed staff living quarters in cramped holiday accommodation a long way from the Amazon warehouse, which could only be reached by an unreliable bus service.
England's players will now head off on holiday after a long season, although they will wish it was not all over with Euro 2008 kicking off in less than a week.
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Some have said this is the best retail holiday season in a long time, even before the economy went south in recent years.
But Friday's moves were slim, as a dearth of news and low trading volume gave investors little incentive to take a stand ahead of the long New Year-holiday weekend.
As the Year of the Tiger approaches (February 14th this year), Chinese workers look forward to their week-long holiday -- a nightmarish time for foreign vendors who'll struggle to get hold of anyone in the country.
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