Her son and two daughters were also home because of the holiday break from school.

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"For most children and adolescents, the summer is a time to get a break from school and have fun, " the proposal said.

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They had had their first child while she was on a break from law school, and their second arrived while they were living in Virginia.

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She said he delivered on a promise to provide her with her own bedroom when she visited him once in New York during a break from law school.

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Many companies also take online applications, he said, so it's not necessary for college students to wait until they get home from a school break to apply for a job.

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Many states use the holiday as an opportunity to give parents a break from the sales taxes associated with school supplies, dorm furnishings and clothing.

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But, as Rudy reached school age, Harold began to consider making a break from Brooklyn and his criminal associations there.

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Karen Rowing said she had had Botox in her lunch-break and after the dermal filler treatment would be going home to pick up her children from school.

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The plan for Nottingham is that from 2013, children would return to school in late August after a month-long break and then have a two-week break in the autumn, at Christmas, in spring and in late May.

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Educated at Regent House Grammar School (from which he says he was "asked to leave") and Dundondald High School, his first break in journalism was as a trainee at the Newsletter newspaper in Northern Ireland.

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