When Mariana Beer was accepted to read English at Bristol in 1921, her headmistress celebrated with a half-day holiday for the entire school.
Mrs Fertnig said parents had been told to buy commercially-produced test revision books for their children to complete during the half-term holiday next week.
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The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has said it is "critical" the issue is resolved for businesses in the area, especially shops during the half-term holiday.
Since the present credit crunch will bring longer under-demand than did the Wall Street crash in 1929, Britain's wisest and most Keynesian policy would be an income-tax holiday for at least the poorer half of its too many income-taxpayers.
The newly-announced strikes will see staff walk out for a total of 20 days, covering spring bank holiday and school half-term holidays.
Cohen estimates that retailers will lose about half of sales they expected for the post-holiday shopping season with the Christmas blizzard impediment.
The couple were half way through their two-week fly-drive holiday and were travelling from Orleans, Louisiana, to Tampa, Florida, when they decided to break their journey.
One-half said they had created a budget for the holiday season, which is the exact same result we found in 2009.
It leaves the company in good position to enter the second half of the year, which includes the all-important holiday shopping season.
Some retailers may be giving it a half-hearted effort thanks to the bad timing of where the holiday falls.
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For one month a year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) converts this area into holiday central for NORAD's Santa Tracker, a half-century-old program that has become a thing of legend -- a curious juxtaposition of warfare preparedness and storybook magic.
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Christmas is not recognized as a national holiday in Japan, and in South Korea, roughly half the population self-identifies as non-religious.
The stock has not traded in technically oversold territory since the Thanksgiving holiday in late November, and has a short-term, negative edge of less than half a percent.
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However, the company maintained its full year operating margin guidance for the chipset and licensing divisions, implying that the later half of the year should pick up the slack as handset makers launch high-end smartphones in preparation for the holiday season.
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