Several analysts said copper could fall some more in the next couple of months due to this uncertain backdrop, and also because of slower seasonal demand during the vacation season and maintenance shutdowns in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Whether it's a dad joining conference calls by cellphone during the family vacation, teenagers texting under the table or moms checking Facebook from the soccer sidelines, technology intrudes upon family life in most American homes.
On the sidewalk during the long vacation months we played a new game called "I Declare War, " using a cheap rubber ball and a piece of chalk.
Some experts say lengthening the school year is more important, because there is ample evidence that some students, especially those who are low-income, suffer setbacks in their learning from being out of school during the long summer vacation.
He created the genetic algorithm that runs the app after reading programming books and forums, writing the code during his summer vacation and sending mail shots to the tech press to get coverage.
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On top of this, they were not permitted to have a vacation during the holiday.
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Why should they also enjoy a chunk of vacation during the holidays?
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Before making his statement in Parliament, Brown paid tribute to the 37 British troops who had been killed in Afghanistan during the lawmakers' summer vacation, naming each individually.
Even the President Obama, incessantly occupied since he announced his candidacy in early 2007, was finally able to take a crisis-free vacation during the last week of the year.
There are about 360 working hours during the two-month summer vacation.
During the same period, on the 4, 100 days they were on vacation, the stock market went up over 16 percent annually.
So, take some time during your vacation to tune in to the people around you.
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There's profit sharing, too, plus the 67 paid holidays during the current four-year contract, exclusive of vacation time.
Another reason employees see a dip in productivity at work during the holidays: Colleagues and managers may be on vacation.
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For years we met in the summer, and during your inexplicably protracted winter vacation, we traveled together to strenuous places.
The vice president and his wife Tipper, soon to be joined by all three of their children, are taking a vacation at this Atlantic beach resort during the Republican National Convention.
In the past three years she invested three vacation days during December to yield nine-day vacations, including bookend weekends, to Cuba and other overseas destinations.
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Employment opportunities in travel and tourism, which fall into the leisure and hospitality industry, are abundant, especially during prime vacation seasons.
Starting in the late 1980s, many families bought or built second homes in vacation spots, covering the overhead by renting them out during the high seasons.
Another of Gates' vacation companions is Ann Winblad, the software entrepreneur and venture capitalist he dated during the 1980s.
But he did tell me the acquisition happened during a frenzied week in April after he returned from a U.K. vacation.
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It was during my summer vacation with my family -- my first trip to what those of us in Hawaii call the Mainland.
In December, 2005, after twelve exhausting months in Iraq, during which he lost forty pounds, Johnson went on leave and met his parents for a Christmas vacation in the Dominican Republic.
The 58-year-old disappeared with his wife and four others while flying in a small plane during a vacation to a Venezuelan island.
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