In parts of eastern Scotland thousands of pupils had an unexpected day off as hundreds of schools were closed on Wednesday, mostly in Aberdeenshire, Fife, Angus and Midlothian.
One backer took the day off of work to spend her hours making calls to friends and urging them to donate.
The bombs caused some property damage, but Boston and industry officials said the biggest cost to the insurers is expected to come from "business-interruption" claims stemming from the nine-day cordoning off of the bombing scene.
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The pullback, which came as a part of a two-day sell-off, led to a two-day bounce in the stock of more than 3%.
Structured in a rally format instead of the more tradition, non-stop Baja endurance competition, the NORRA Mexican 1000 offers Team SRI a unique opportunity to demonstrate the capabilities of the EV1 thanks its multi-day schedule and a series of off-road Special Stages linked via on-road transit sections.
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David Carey, president of Hearst Magazines, sat down with AllThingsD's Peter Kafka to kick off Day 2 of D:Dive Into Media here in Dana Point, California, with the interview centering on Carey's take on how digital magazines are working out in a world that seems less and less intrigued by physical books.
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Instead, death is modified by ludicrously lengthy appeals (the average stay of execution for state-imposed sentences is now almost nine years) which put off the day of accounting, but do not remove it altogether.
Or establish a Ferengi trading coalition, with the hopes of one day buying off your enemies.
Wall Street took Thanksgiving Day off, of course, but returned from the feasting in a sour mood.
More than 600 teachers across 13 councils had at least one day off because of stress last year.
And if that were not enough, on this first day of June we kick off National Soul Food Month, celebrating Southern African-American cooking.
Its favourable demographic trends mean its fiscal day of reckoning is further off than Europe's and the dollar's reserve-currency status provides manoeuvring room.
Regardless of paternity, such a day was first celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, when members of the CLU took an unpaid day off to demonstrate solidarity and, of course, have picnics.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the critics of Poulenc's day were thrown off the scent by his apparent inconsistency of tone.
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Fly-half Arlidge was highly effective with kicks out of hand, but had an off-day in front of the posts, failing with his conversion attempt of Fussell's try.
Welegedara gave away just 28 runs in his opening spell of seven overs, but finished the day with figures of 3-75 off 17 overs.
After presenting a number of series on my day off from newspapers, I was invited to London to become one of the presenting team for a new daily current affairs magazine programme called Sixty Minutes, the BBC's successor to Nationwide.
Thousands of Rwandans have taken the day off work to pick up plastic bags as part of a government attempt to clean up the environment.
This pullback was part of a four-day sell-off that took the stock to new lows ahead of the recent rebound, a bounce that has sent FB higher by more than 10% in five days.
The second day of the two-day event was called-off on safety grounds as tents were being blown away.
In 2004, thousands of people were encouraged to take the day off work to help pick up some of the plastic bags which littered the country.
Gambhir was fortunate to survive a certain lbw appeal when Mills was called for a no-ball with his first delivery of the day, but took advantage of his leg-off to bring up his 10th Test half century.
One-third of workers have taken a day off when they weren't really sick, according to a survey of more than 6, 800 employees conducted by CareerBuilder.com.
And with the eight minutes of the match remaining, Sunderland's miserable day was compounded with the sending off of Mensah for pulling back Suarez, who was through on goal.
The slugger rejected a multiyear extension last offseason that was said to include a small percentage of the franchise and cut off negotiations on the first day of spring training.
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With the British press having a field day, Green backed off of his impending offer.
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VALENTINE'S Day is a couple of months off, but this weekend many couples will be out celebrating.
"The practice goes back to day one, of not laying off employees for lack of work, " he says.
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