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.
And like an 18-30 holiday crowd half dead with sunstroke, the contestants knew that if they screamed on cue they would eventually get to see a pair of breasts being groped.
There's no trade embargo keeping you from this Cuban paradise nestled on a quiet stretch of the city's River Walk, especially with a half-off Havanese holiday right here at home.
The newly-announced strikes will see staff walk out for a total of 20 days, covering spring bank holiday and school half-term holidays.
Fewer than half its workers take their full holiday entitlement, and emphasis is placed on professionalism and efficiency.
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.
One-half said they had created a budget for the holiday season, which is the exact same result we found in 2009.
Cohen estimates that retailers will lose about half of sales they expected for the post-holiday shopping season with the Christmas blizzard impediment.
Over half of the clients who order machines during that holiday are female, which actually harkens back to the early days on Pong and Pac-Man, before games became too complex.
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Even though we have just a half day of trading Monday, followed by the Christmas holiday, there are several notable economic reports.
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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.
"In the first half, we did a lot of things well, " Holiday said.
It leaves the company in good position to enter the second half of the year, which includes the all-important holiday shopping season.
From the stockmarket crash of 1929 to the federally declared bank holiday that marked its bottom, three and a half years elapsed, and unemployment reached 25%.
Some retailers may be giving it a half-hearted effort thanks to the bad timing of where the holiday falls.
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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.
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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Half got involved with a charity, while 39% went on a dream holiday.
All hourly employees who work on a national holiday, including Thanksgiving, receive pay equal to time and a half their hourly pay rate, she said.
In 2009, in response to the Great Recession, Congress suspended the IRA required minimum distribution rules (the RMD holiday) for one year for older taxpayers (70 and a half or older) so they could keep their money in the account and let it grow tax-deferred.
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More than half of parents (55%) in England admit having taken a child on holiday during term time, a poll suggests.
According to Domenici, the tax holiday would help both business and individuals because employers and employees each pay half, or 6.2 percent, of the tax.
"With more than half of our customers having access to 4G LTE speeds by the start of the holiday season, we are helping customers simplify and organize their lives more quickly and easier than ever, " said David Kimbell, senior vice president of marketing and chief marketing officer for U.S. Cellular.
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Forrester did a survey of retailers and found that, on average, about 20% of holiday mobile traffic came via tablets, with some retailers reporting that more than half their mobile traffic came via tablets.
More than half (57%) of those surveyed said they took their children out of school for a holiday because it was cheaper, with a third (32%) saying they could not afford a break during the school holidays.
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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The rates kicked in over the holiday weekend and are prospective, meaning that they apply only to miles driven for the second half of the year, or from July 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011.
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